Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Smith was always fearful that his only audience would become a collection of aesthetes, critics and effete hangers-on within the artistic community. In an increasingly market-driven world of artistic creation and consumption, perhaps Smith worried that his images were becoming acclaimed merely by virtue of being the most fungible--most capable of being marshalled as the raw material of one interpretive school or another...
Were Ives the creation of a less probing writer, his immutable goodness would seem comic. Characters like him show up in contemporary fiction as often as they do in real life, which is to say virtually never. But Hijuelos succeeds in making Ives believable largely by treating his kindness with almost perfunctory matter-of-factness. In unembellished sentence after unembellished sentence, Hijuelos lists Ives' charitable acts as if they were entries in a Filofax: "One of the things he did out of the office was to produce advertising to raise money for different funds, especially for Harlem kids. Working with...
...disturbing revelations at a Senate hearing on a measure that would impose penalties on those who breach confidentiality, as well as give patients the right to see and correct their records. Critics maintain, however, that the bill is not strong enough; worse, they say, it might encourage the creation of more extensive medical data banks...
...hope the student body will show their willingness to see this happen by not simply demanding the creation of an on-line facebook, but by making an effort to understand the underlying issues...
...Hubble's innards was crucial. Even so, installation of a complex array of corrective mirrors--essentially fitting the Hubble with a set of eyeglasses--was a high-cost ($700 million), high-risk venture, and some astronomers were dubious. "They considered the whole thing to be rather a Rube Goldberg creation," says Spitzer. On top of that, the list of tasks assigned to the astronauts who flew the repair mission--not just installing the new optics, but replacing an outdated camera, two wobbly solar-energy panels and three faulty gyroscopes, among other balky components--seemed too long. "I don't think...