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...member of the squash intelligentsia about Mike Desaulniers and you get responses like, "What can I say that wouldn't be trite?" His pure ability is beyond reproach; but he has more at stake now--this time, as captain, a team victory is everything...
...Administration's proposal that the Games be moved to another country, postponed or boycotted to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The Soviets reacted with anger. Said one editor about Carter: "He is going too far. This has nothing to do with Afghanistan. It is America's pure anti-Sovietism coming out again...
...pragmatic learning by doing aboard Westward comes as a shock to many students. "When you get science in school, it's so pure," says Debbie Merrill, 20, a sophomore majoring in environmental studies at the University of Vermont. "You never hear about how the researchers lost some of the sampling bottles in the ocean, or how sick they were at the rail." Arndt Braaten, 19, a junior at Luther College, discovered during spectro-photometric analysis in West-ward's lab that tiny particles of iron peel away from the ship's hull and form measurable concentrations...
Some disappointed sellers discovered that their "pure" gold bracelets were really cheap plate. Even if the pieces were in fact gold or silver, many sellers were unhappy to learn that they get considerably less than the much headlined prices of the metals. Sterling silver is only 92.5% pure, while 10-, 14-and 18-karat gold is respectively 42%, 58% and 75% pure. Also, dealers can take commissions of 10% or more on trades...
Nothing, one would think, could be addressed more purely to the eye than Seurat's divisionism, his way of analytically representing color and light by means of dots of pure pigment, stippled closely together. In front of a painting like The Gravelines Channel, Grand Fort-Philippe, 1890, one.is conscious of nothing but the field of infinite nuances, the chalky light of the marine estuary, the artist's utter absorption in vision itself: this is one of the most exquisite paeans to the discriminatory power of the human eye ever to be set on canvas, far away, one would suppose, from...