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...Philadelphia-born Calder was a fluent and effusively industrious artist who made thousands of works, and Prather has done a fine job of winnowing the wheat from the chaff, of which, truth to tell, there is a great deal. Calder never seems to have had the smallest inhibition about his chosen career. Both his parents were artists, and he made his own toys, "always a junkman of bits of wire and all the prettiest stuff in the garbage can." Growing up, he studied mechanical engineering, took painting classes at the Art Students League in New York City...
...excessive junk get you down, for amid the chaff-ridden choices are valuable research resources. A quick search of scholarly mailing lists provided me with a number of non-Harvard professor outlooks on the subject of a recent paper. A slightly longer look, and I was able to save 20 percent on a holiday purchase...
True, but there are rewarding things on TV, piles of wheat in mountains of chaff. Even the Raspets broke down and bought a TV last year to follow the elections; they keep it warm an hour a week by watching Star Trek videos. Public Broadcasting has taken a beating in recent years from critics and Congress, but it remains the single most important and trustworthy friend for our children, be they watchers of Arthur, Sesame Street or that big doofus Barney. The basic mission at pbs is to get children to learn. The basic mission almost everywhere else...
...Force, deployed so that no one can leave the press area unnoticed. Onscreen, the Secret Service is out of position, and the Air Force personnel have disappeared completely. The real plane has fancy flares and infrared devices to deter a missile attack--much more effective than the chaff, intended to confuse radar, used in the movie...
...standards cannot be seen as a legitimate way to separate those deserving summa cum laude designation from their undeserving peers. There is just not enough integrity in the difference between an A-and a B+ in Expos to make this distinction more important in separating the wheat from the chaff...