Word: sheers
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...only guess. The first thing I think about is the sheer beauty of the film, these highly detailed scenes that could never exist. As in the paintings of Dali, there is such a high level of craft at work, and also like Dali, the depicted objects could not exist, they defy physics. (Kong's muscles couldn't support the mass of his skeletal structure - or was it that his bones couldn't support his musculature? I can't remember which, but it's a major health issue in big monster circles.) The matte paintings, which I believe...
...spent his career searching for ways to put theater back at the center of humanity's imaginative life. Leave it to an Irishman to figure the whole thing out. If there is one thing which the movies cannot and will not ever be able to capture, it is the sheer enchantment of sitting in a room with another human being and listening to a story. And I'm not talking about the bedtime variety. No, the story Im talking about is the kind you hear from the guy sitting next to you at the pub, the story about...
...feel tempted to dismiss this combination of events as sheer coincidence, then consider the people running our country: They are the vestigial remains of the Cold War era. Secretary of State Colin Powell is a Cold War general; National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice is a Cold War scholar; and Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld are Cold War politicians. Their political decisions thus far, as well as their indifference to Moscow's reaction to them, are all too reminiscent of Cold War strategy...
...high-tech security and crowd control procedures. They have really sophisticated procedures for moving, housing and feeding some 2 million people, who sometimes are required to move simultaneously over large distances. They really have done a remarkable job of doing what is possible to manage these crowds. But the sheer number of pilgrims makes it almost inevitable that there will be some accidents, and in a crowd that size, accidents generally mean casualties. As one Saudi spokesman pointed out, you have to take the crowd control headache that Americans experience each year packing 100,000 people into a football stadium...
...show this last phrase cropping up everywhere from George W. Bush billboards to Budweiser ads to the cover of TIME. Then Kansas City computer programmer and part-time deejay Jeffrey Ray Roberts, 23, sampled the quote and added an annoyingly catchy dance track. "I did it for the sheer inside-joke value," he says. "Everyone was trying to one-up each other." Next came a two-minute music video, and soon "All your base!" was being yelled out of dorm windows on campuses around the country. Much like its Web predecessors, the Dancing Baby and the "I kiss you!" home...