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These kinds of qualifications are put to rigorous use. The magazine constructs a brutal obstacle course through which the simplest to the most complex fact must pass. Correspondents in the field find their stories subjected to a telexed barrage of researcher questions, called check points, to review for accuracy. And before a story is published, correspondents in the field who have contributed to the story must also review it, word for word. Errors, of course, still do occur, often brought to our attention by readers; in each case the cause is traced and discussed to ensure that that mistake...
...with any other highly developed art form nourished by centuries of performance tradition, nuance is everything in Kabuki. The simplest dramatic idea may be drawn out to great length to express an emotion or state of mind. Take the openemotion or state of mind. Take the opening of the touching Sumidagawa. Hanjo (Utaemon), a mother searching for her kidnaped child, appears first at the back of the hanamichi, the runway used for important entrances and exits that extends from the stage well out into the audience. Her torturous progress in slow, halting steps shows her distraught emotional state and firmly...
...baseball. In a 1977 essay. Angell writes of a malaise he feels toward baseball, blaming it in part on "the distraction of the price tags and business squabbles and owners statements and press releases that are now attached...to so many stars and teams, and even to the simplest and most cheerful scraps of early baseball news." This growing disenchantment is the one recurrent theme in this collection of articles on a range of baseball subjects...
...this end, Grease 2 has assembled bloodless pastiches of 20-year-old pop music, reduced antique dance styles to their simplest components, ignored the authentic texture of language, manners and style except for their most obvious elements. The story is of the same cali ber: Michael, an English lad (Maxwell Caulfield), falls in love with Stephanie (Michelle Pfeiffer), leader of the T-Birds' hangers-on, the Pink Ladies. Her heart, however, does wheelies for him only when he dresses up as a mysteriously masked motorcyclist, a sort of Lone Ranger on a hawg. He does not reveal his true...
Watergate was an American morality play. The Constitution was the hero. That was Watergate's simplest and purest dimension. But it was fascinatingly more than that. It was one of the nation's most complicated psychological and cultural experiences. The multiple levels and facets of it (somewhat like the levels and intricacies of Nixon's character) give Watergate an almost inexhaustible interest...