Word: distinctives
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...Open every day from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.) The Holocaust is movingly dealt with, but the museum also encompasses nearly 2,000 years of Jewish culture in Germany. Most of the displays are interactive, so that each chapter of history seems fresh and distinct from the last. For example, Jewish life 1,000 years ago is captured on a brief film (with English subtitles, like other exhibits) showing what houses and synagogues looked like in cities such as Worms at the turn of the first millennium. In a section on medieval life, visitors open drawers to discover anti-Jewish...
...Another distinct trend noted by the report is a polarization of students since 1993—more student are either abstaining completely from alcohol or frequently binge drinking. Each category increased by about one-fifth, with abstainers increasing from 16.4 percent to 19.3 percent and frequent binge drinkers increasing from 19.7 to 22.8 percent of the college population...
These two sides of corporate sleuthing are largely distinct: they ask different kinds of questions and rely on different kinds of specialists. The ranks of business security intelligence departments are filled with former government agents, while competitive intelligence, with a few notable exceptions, is collected and analyzed by professional researchers who resemble librarians more than shadowy spooks...
Ambiguity often distinguishes good art from great art. By attempting to simplify the state of contemporary art into two distinct camps, the Carpenter Center’s show “Some Options in Abstraction” and its currently-showing sister “Some Options in Realism” are in a double bind. Such categorization of art—while perhaps useful and necessary for its understanding—runs the risk of destroying a work’s subtlety and mystery. The compelling works that make up the show are strong on their own, but they...
...relic—today there are “Serbia and Montenegro.” Still confused? You should be. The new name is unwieldy, trying to express everything that needs to be said in a single breath. Beyond that, it dismisses the ethnic identities of two distinct peoples: Serbs and Montenegrins...