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...editors get their clothes wholesale, fewer sportswriters ride free on team planes. Bailey, now the Washington editor of National Public Radio, wrote his critique for the National News Council shortly before that independent watchdog group voted itself out of existence. On other potential conflicts of interest, he is a purist: "No journalist should have any personal involvements in politics or political activity beyond registering and voting; no government work at any level, paid or unpaid." With rules like these on many papers, press behavior in this and other matters is improving. Why, then, are the media mistrusted more than they...
...come to the right place. The only problem is choosing the richest, the creamiest, and the most exotic, not to mention toppings. Most people have a favorite they'll swear by, but there are as many opinions as there are varieties of chocolate and vanilla. Forget the purist instinct, shed your inhibitions, let your imagination run wild...
...that is all right, since Kaufman extends his mythopoetic license to the limits in expanding the role of Yeager, whom he portrays as remaining a lonely flight-test purist at Edwards for the entire period covered by the film. This is historically inaccurate-he left the base in 1954-but it is emotionally correct. Kaufman wanted to do a movie about "a particular form of American heroism" and to ask the question "How does that elusive quality survive in the midst of the American circus, the chaos, public commotion, the panic, that all threaten to stamp it out?" The answer...
Gemini was known for the obsessive, flawless precision of its printing. It encouraged Stella to make large images by using silk-screen or flat-bed lithography from metal plates-means that more "purist" printmakers, wedded to the nuances of stone lithography, tended to reject as commercially tainted. Stella began to push printmaking toward the scale of painting. The climax of this process was reached in an extraordinary series of prints he did with Tyler Graphics from 1980 onward...
While this purist attitude strains the cast and audience endurance to the limit, it somehow manages not to spill over. With the unfortunate exception of Romeo's sidekicks Benvolio and Mercutio (Kate Levin and Jeannie Affelder), almost everyone -- even the servants saddled with endless forced Elizabethan puns --manage to speak in natural tones. Silver as Juliet stands out particularly in this respect, somehow projecting both the terrified innocence of a thirteen-year old and, gradually, the woman's depth of commitment and tragedy Few Juliet's have matured so convincingly...