Word: smidgens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They're not quite racists. I'm sure they have a smidgen of diversity within their sales-force ranks. It's hard to describe them as chauvinists since I'm certain that they have a smattering of female executives. And I'm willing to bet that they even have a couple of retailers with crooked noses that are prone to the occasional pimple...
...curated some intelligent shows on Constructivist sculpture, Brancusi, Antonin Artaud's drawings and other topics, affirms that Polke's vernacular has "regenerate[d] the language and meaning of Western artistic experience," and suggests that he is the Hieronymus Bosch of our day, you sigh. Polke has never shown a smidgen of the aesthetic intensity, the absorption in religious and moral experience or the staggering completeness of Bosch's universe of images. This has to be the silliest comparison since Julian Schnabel last likened himself to Picasso...
...money back? Aren't the studios in business to turn a profit? Normally, yes. But nothing about Titanic is normal. After an arduous shoot during which Mechanic fought bitterly with Cameron and even more bitterly with Paramount Pictures, Fox's partner on the film, Mechanic admits to spending a smidgen less than $200 million. (That's without the additional millions it will cost to market it.) The picture will have to gross about $350 million for Fox to break even...
...book of Genesis long, long ago crumbled under the weight of science," writer Robert Wright displays a puzzling selectivity in then declaring that "the Christian doctrine of original sin makes more sense as evolutionary psychologists learn more about why people do bad things." If Genesis has even a smidgen of relevance in helping us grasp the concept of original sin, why are the scientifically enlightened so adamant that Genesis' assertions regarding origins in general are unreliable? TIM CALLAWAY Calgary, Canada...
...pests? This, after all, is the human way: if you don't like it, rub it out, down to the last molecule of DNA. Like the smallpox virus, which spent a few millenniums cutting down humans by the tens of millions. Now we've got the last little smidgen of smallpox cornered in some test tubes, scheduled for destruction in 1999. Likewise, let a few hunters loose in the national parks with crossbows and Magnums, and it would be hasta la vista, bears...