Word: mereness
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Wolf, 63, has held virtually every civic office, from mayor to state party caucus member to school committee member. Galluccio, 29, has served on the city council a mere three years...
...bout some stats: A mere 186 yards of total offense for Columbia, including a woeful 53 yards on the ground, three sacks, fumble and an interception. Yeah, but the Crimson gave up 20 points, you say. True, but 10 of those points came off of turnovers, one on Harvard's own 19-yard line...
...bureaucrats didn't invent beach volleyball, who did? i ask that question because ever since this summer's Republican National Convention I've been contemplating the moment when Newt Gingrich, in the course of introducing an Olympic volleyballer to the cheering delegates, said, "A mere 40 years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about...
...other words, the show does not try to dramatize the poem, but uses the poem as one element in a collage of weirdness. A more serious problem is that mere weirdness doesn't allow much variety or development; so that this show, short as it is, can seem very long. Towards the end, as the techniques that were once startling--head-banging, repetition, shouting--became familiar, I found myself longing for something genuinely risky--a violent gesture, or a vulnerable one, anything that would seem like a payoff to all the build-up. Instead, the show's climax...
...operating tables, their bodies bristling, porcupine-like, with needles, used to be the fare of National Geographic or colorful travel brochures. Acupuncture--the Oriental practice of piercing the flesh with steel needles to relieve illness--was long as exotic to Westerners as snake soup or the I ching. The mere mention of it to a Western physician would invite a stern, finger-wagging lecture on the perils of quackery...