Word: imperfectible
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...language all of its own—“with its own vocabulary, grammar, and syntax…poetry and prose”—we see that the reproduction of a work of art by any printed mechanism is in fact a translation, and therefore imperfect: a variation. In translation, the Ingres loses its chubbiness and cheerfulness but attains a sort of depth in its new black and white form that prefigures the transformation of depth of representation that would take place with the tension of photography’s acceleration of this mechanical picturing...
...onto the surface, giving the work a splattery, fuzzy tone. But even the graphics, mostly rendered in a palette of grays with brief bursts of color, has an unappealing drabness to it. Kids will almost certainly find it dreary. "Sticks and Stones" means well, but manages to find an imperfect middle ground between art and politics...
...precisely because Iraq does not yet have a government whose legitimacy has been established among its own people that the question of the election scheduled for January has assumed so much importance. Allawi insisted that the election would go ahead - although, he warned, it would be imperfect - despite the suggestion by "some" that security conditions for holding a credible election simply don't exist right now. "Some" may have been a reference to the likes of Senator John Kerry and UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, but ironically the suggestion that elections might have to be postponed for security reasons...
...enjoyed my first year at school, but Harvard seemed like an imperfect tool. I learned about public policy and politics; I even participated in my share of campus activism. But I was torn. I liked to party. I liked to make midnight trips to the Kong and play roller hockey in the hallway of my dorm. Harvard offered millions of opportunities to be part of The Movement, and I felt guilty when I turned down one of those opportunities to enjoy the pleasant distractions of college life...
What exactly that stretch of DNA does remains to be discovered, but it may be a key not just to long life but also to the resilience found among U.S. centenarian-study participants, with their 20% smoking rate and imperfect eating habits. That group may be especially genetically blessed, and researchers are eager to tap its secrets...