Word: filterers
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...countryside green. The essays flow smoothly from one to another, together they form a cohesive work, filled with perceptive observations. But as a collection, they assume a greater purpose. She gropes for that single flash of insight that would make sense of the rhetoric and the horror stories that filter through Hong Kong to Sunday supplements of American newspapers, that frighten many Americans and bewilder the rest. That flash of insight is absent...
...Abstract Expressionist. Since America is apt to regard its artists as either seed bulls or vicarious aristocrats, the squabbles over lineage tend to be obsessive. But the historicist view of priorities has its shallows. Several fine painters who came to maturity in the 1950s have been blurred by the filter of Who Did What First...
...dialectic brought history as continuity to its most complete form, the unity of a single Idea of freedom, but who also delineated cultural breaks which accompanied each stage in history. Beyond Hegel, Foucault draws on two streams flowing away from him: Marx and Nietzche. From Marx, seen through the filter of the structuralists, Foucault learns the patterns of contradiction and change. From Nietzche, he adopts a "Dionysian note of interrogation" asking and then looking beyond the answers...
...primarily research that turned Rupert's fledgling business into an empire. While puttering in his factory laboratory in 1952, he devised what he claims was the world's first king-sized filter-tip cigarette, Rembrandt, which was an immediate success. Since then, Rupert claims his company was first to come out with menthol-filtered and multifiltered cigarettes...
...proof). The result is by far the smoothest American whiskey, with a flavor close to that of Canadian. Says Joseph C. Haefelin, research director of American Distilling Co., which is producing Royal American light whiskey: "This is not a big-black-cigar whiskey. It's more a filter-cigarette whiskey...