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...have spent hours lately thinking about how different life would have been as a Dodger fan instead of a Mets fan (probably a lot better this summer). I wonder what it would have been like to walk a few blocks to the stadium, and how a tradition as pure as that of baseball in Brooklyn would have survived the various corrupting influences of modern professional sport. I wonder if the days of walking down Flatbush Avenue and hearing Dodger broadcasts blaring from a million windows would have lasted through those four lost decades. Aging fans now exult at the sight...
...Another metaphor: The supposed church-state wall between the editorial and business sides of a newspaper. Same motivation: keep the information pure and unbiased, so everybody could trust that, say, the science wasn't touting a new Merck wonder drug because Merck had paid good money for all that ad space on the facing page...
...contributor gripes: "They'll probably make a movie called Hiroshima next, in which heroic American soldiers bomb those evil Japanese and save the world." Another writes: "In Armageddon, you could excuse the message that America is number one because it's science fiction. But Pearl Harbor looks to be pure propaganda...
...hours-a-day, 7-days-a-week wholesale price caps on the electricity markets of "the entire 11-state Western region." That little number was widely seen to give Bush some badly needed cover, as FERC was an independent agency doing the politically smart thing for apparently pure motives. Bush the pure-bred capitalist could look graceful simply by not squealing like...
...Holl's principles and intuitions have culminated in his plan for a major addition to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo., scheduled for completion in 2004. This time he comes as close as possible to working in pure light--a sequence of "light wells," translucent structures strewn across the museum grounds like giant crystal boxes, each of them admitting sunlight to galleries underground...