Word: uncertainly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...students will be enrolled in federally assisted job-training programs, pending transfer of these programs to the states and cities, which will have to decide which ones to keep going. In other words, such programs as the Job Corps and Neighborhood Youth Corps face a most uncertain future...
Photography is still a young medium. Exactly what this means in terms of the quality we should expect from it is uncertain: It was never really possible for anyone to say that literature or painting was young, nor can we compare the early products of those arts with those of forms which grew up suddenly out of inventions-still photography, film, television. One thing, perhaps the only things, that means is that the most radical developments are still being made...
Some of Wise's sequences rely on what are apparently family relations between people in the various shots, but just how they are related is distractingly unclear. In several cases where the direction of the sequence is intentionally left uncertain the effect is confusion rather than ambiguity. His finest product ties together several frames of a woman and child getting up in the morning with bars of morning sunlight but in general one has to be skeptical of Wise's posted statement that he united the sequences through "formal relations and through the structure of narrative, myth, and ritual...
Time Lag. Outright forgeries can usually be detected by chemical analysis (use of pigments that had not been invented at the time of the original painting, electronic dating of the wood or canvas or clay). But even the most careful scholarship is uncertain. Says Horst W. Janson, chairman of the department of fine arts at New York University: "Nothing can be taken for granted. There is no such thing as the final word. What you read on a label in a museum hardly ever reflects the latest state of scholarship-there is an inevitable time lag, in part...
...Although doctors are still uncertain as to the precise role of cholesterol in heart disease, many urge patients to try, through special dieting, to reduce the amount of the fatlike substance in their blood. That approach, however, may pose another hazard. A group of doctors from U.C.L.A. and the Veterans Administration Wadsworth Hospital in Los Angeles report in the New England Journal of Medicine that people on diets designed to reduce cholesterol levels are more likely to develop gallstones than those who eat normally. The researchers draw their conclusion from autopsy records of patients involved in a VArun trial...