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...concern is that Travis may be over-interpreting our data,” he said. “In our paper, we made it clear that the apparent variations with color that we tabulated could be due to the telescope and instrument, and thus might not be due to molecules in the planetary atmosphere...
...much darker Danish film, The Inheritance of a few years back) reminds us of what we're missing. It's not just the elegant country houses we revel in. It's the sense these movies convey that money - the giving and withholding of it - is a powerful melodramatic instrument, something that can dominate (and warp) lives. You need mature actors to play in pictures like these and you need someone like Bier to impart a dark, but still enviable, sheen to upscale life. And, more important, to penetrate mere stylishness to find the authentic drama beneath the handsome surfaces. After...
...fact, a proper homage to Broza’s guitar virtuosity would require a much lengthier discussion. His understanding of the possibilities of the guitar was often admirable at the Forum—as when he abandoned the strings altogether and re-envisioned it as a percussion instrument. At other times, Broza’s technical mastery of the instrument was nothing less than unbelievable. For instance, he would sometimes hold down the strings on the fretboard and strum with the same hand...
...overwhelmed by grief, and much of I Am a Strange Loop flows from his sense that Carol lives on in him--that the strange loop of her mind persists in his, a faint but real copy of her software running on his neural hardware, her tune played on his instrument. "It was that sense that the same thing was being felt inside her and inside me--that it wasn't two different feelings, it was the same feeling," Hofstadter says. "If you believe that what makes for consciousness is some kind of abstract pattern, then it's sort...
...grafted] them together so that they might speak for ‘America.’”Despite the polling technique of using a sample to represent the whole, pollsters also presented themselves as champions of the people, “serv[ing] as the instrument by which ordinary Americans’ voices could become audible to those in the corridors of power.”Some Americans believed quite completely in this representation, one going so far as to write a letter to Roper apologizing for changing this mind and voting for Truman after telling a pollster...