Word: depths
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Murphy writes this biography as if it were a murder mystery, with the victim being Fortas' political life. In the end, he concludes, "The Rise and Ruin" of Fortas is the story of a murder-suicide. The strength of this massive work lies in the depth of detail offered and the grace and drama of the telling. Key incidents are hinted at then slyly tucked away by Murphy, only to be revealed at a later moment when the dramatic effect would be greater...
...Surgeon General's report will have the same galvanizing effect on the public's eating habits that the 1964 Government warning about tobacco had on smoking. Koop sees plenty of similarities. Both areas, he says, have been fraught with "controversy and misunderstanding." But with one significant difference: "The depth of the science underlying this report's findings is even more impressive than that for tobacco and health in 1964." Now that the Surgeon General has spoken, will Americans listen...
Geographical ignorance is often accompanied by political naivete, as demonstrated by a series of more in-depth questions which the pollsters asked over 1600 Americans. The survey found that not more than half of adult Americans know that the Sandinistas and contras are fighting each other in Nicaragua; most placed the conflict in Iran, Lebanon or Afganistan. In addition, 50 percent of Americans could not name a single member of the Warsaw Pact; 10 percent erroneously placed the United States as a member of the Soviet bloc...
...acre-foot is the amount of water necessary to cover one acre to the depth of one foot, or roughly...
...Depth, of course, can get in the way of a clear-cut good time, and part of what makes this young rock so successful is the shared avoidance of soul, a substitution of fantasy for flesh. The best song on the Dirty Dancing records is a piece of elaborate contemporary pop, Eric Carmen's Hungry Eyes, that recaptures the high, wide feeling of '60s music without trying to mimic it. It was hard anyway, even growing up with rock 'n' roll, to define what it was. All anyone ever really knew was that rock was the real thing...