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Nearly every issue contains a major article or two of "fact," as the staff calls anything that is not fiction or humor. "Fact" pieces increasingly run on longer, are more pedestrian in the telling, and are heavily weighted toward the scientific. Shawn acknowledges that some articles can be hard going. "We don't want them to be any more accessible than a piece is that does not distort the science that is being written about." (On that ground, why not staves of music in the music reviews? Shawn smiles: "If it did come up, I'm afraid...
...offer effective solutions to India's major domestic problems." The Indian leader appears to have "run out of political steam," and displays "elements of paranoia and cynicism" in "seeking to blame internal problems on external interference." Her ten-month-old government has been categorized by "erratic" performance, "pedestrian and superficial" style, and "dismaying indecisiveness and ineffectiveness...
...film--always conspires to work against her. The men who are attracted to her are attracted not because but in spite of her intellect. Her intelligence merely makes it difficult, if not impossible, for her to maintain satisfying relationships. The screenplay, by involving her with a somewhat pedestrian builder and a charming, but puerile ex-ballplayer, makes Gundzinger a perpetual misfit. One wonders why, among the University of Chicago's several hundred tenured male professors, she couldn't find a man who genuinely appreciates...
Corporate ties are usually reserved for company directors, important clients and a few corporate friends. They are rarely sold to outsiders, since that might detract from their cachet. Most firms order only a limited number of the ties in silk because of the expense, about $10.50 each. More pedestrian polyester versions costing about $7.25 each are usually offered to middle-level employees at cost. And for their new women executives, many companies now have scarves that bear the corporate tie design...
...short walk from Johnston Gate to the Store 24 is like walking through a mine field. Shoppers tread on shaky wooden boards while on the left and right simultaneous explosions, car horns and workers' shouts make conversation impossible. If this is annoying for the pedestrian, construction troubles, sky-rocketing costs and labor troubles have caused nothing but headaches for the MBTA...