Word: distinctives
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With paper-thin finishes a distinct possibility in the swimming portion of the meet, teams may indeed end up looking to their divers to provide their margin of victory...
This, though, is a mistaken, or at least incomplete, first impression. A closer look at the show as a whole—not as a complex of the work of four distinct artists—reveals telling philosophical nuance. Taken as gestalt, the show is not a social critique at all: it is an indictment of art itself, as a symptom of industry, as fundamentally hypocritical in its dialogue with commercial culture...
This apparently means that songwriter Bill Doss, also of Olivia Tremor Control, is creating something between catchy pop tunes and continuous, trippy background music. As the disc shifts from upbeat cheeriness to Radiohead pessimism, each track blends into the next. Doss isn’t singing us distinct songs; he’s assembling a musical collage while keeping emotional distance from each track. The effect is intriguing, but the dreamy quality of the album belies its sunny theme...
Some argue that the queer studies program does not encompass a broad enough subject to establish an entirely new field of study. But as a discipline that explores the identity of a distinct social group, queer studies is as legitimate as, say, Afro-American studies. The fact that queer studies is devoted to a group defined by its sexuality rather than its cultural and historical background does not make it less worthy of academic pursuit...
Though queer studies shares some interests with women’s studies—such as issues of gender identity and sexuality—the two ought to be separate and distinct committees. While women’s studies deal with issues confronting the female gender, queer studies includes studies of both men and women who share a particular lifestyle and confront similar issues of identity. And since women’s studies is a committee with limited resources, any further burdens upon it would hurt both programs...