Word: indirectness
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...century will be named [TO OUR READERS, Nov. 24]. In terms of pure influence and impact, the shadow of Adolf Hitler looms above all. It is difficult to find a truly significant event or situation from the middle 1930s to the early '90s that is not the direct or indirect result of, or is not in some way related to, his personal decisions. But for Hitler's war and its sequel, all the others--surely Churchill, undoubtedly De Gaulle, probably Roosevelt and maybe Stalin--would have remained local phenomena, or would not even have emerged. GEORGE RIEGL Nantes, France...
With the exception of the treatment of media affairs, the documentary best indicts the ATF through indirect questions for which it has no concrete answers. Waco picks apart disparate bits of information and uses them to bring about logical conclusions. For example, why didn't the Davidians, despite their mass of weapons and knowledge of the raid, immediately bomb the ATF's forces? If the Davidians were the aggressors, why were most of the bullet holes inverted, suggesting the contrary...
...administration officials said that the funding must come from somewhere in the University--it's a question of direct verses indirect taxation...
...suspects another kind of anxiety was at work here--the '90s notion, endemic among studio types, that audiences no longer have the patience to endure subtle, psychologically indirect interchanges between characters or delicate exfoliations of complex relationships. Producers want the bragging rights that come with classy literary adaptations--especially as the awards season looms. They also want to make movies about figures like Catherine, who can be seen as both feminist victim and, once she gets a grip on her emotions, feminist heroine. But they don't want to pay the price for these desires: embracing the intricacies and ambiguities...
...didn't stop Wall Street, where the stock of Geron Corp., a small biotech company based in Menlo Park, Calif., that helped Cech's group discover the gene, more than doubled, to 1618 a share. In fact, Geron researchers have been looking for antitelomerase compounds for several years, using indirect-screening methods. Because tumor cells--the main source of the human enzyme--produce it in vanishingly small quantities, the scientists lacked pure telomerase, which could have sped the search for drugs that might be used against...