Word: crux
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...Mammogram Melee" failed to address the crux of the controversy [Dec. 7]. What was behind the recommendation by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force to delay routine mammograms until age 50? The article says the panel "judged that the risks of harm from annual screening outweighed the benefits." But what are those risks? By failing to clarify them, you deprived readers of information they need to make up their own minds about the controversy...
...crux of the exhibition, however, is Wodiczko’s new work, housed in the larger of the two spaces in the ICA. The room, which displays images projected onto the walls, gives viewers the experience of standing in a warehouse. The majority of the room is black, with high windows projected on three sides. Shrouded in darkness, the viewers can only see what would plausibly be visible through these windows. At the beginning of the installation, the frosted glass panes reveal only a blue...
...joked with his Gentile buddies just before crashing the musician’s set (casually concealing the fact that he himself was just such an oddity). With this potent blend of self-deprecation and arrogance, Dylan has managed to keep us laughing at his jokes without quite grasping the crux of the punchline for decades, making his latest musical endeavor, an album of holiday standards entitled “Christmas in the Heart,” just as puzzling as it is entertaining. Nostalgic descriptions, like on “Silver Bells,” of how Christmas...
...other, similar substances—certainly seems surprising. Since results from the scientific community vary (despite the CRA’s attempts to convince us otherwise), there’s definite reason for pause. But arguments over high-fructose corn syrup’s intrinsic dangers actually overlook the crux of the issue. Ultimately, it’s our unwitting over-consumption of the substance and the environmental impacts of this consumption that prove most troubling...
...Harvard is certainly an institution that deserves and effectively utilizes the gifts it receives from its supporters. And while we take issue with the minimal impact Cohen believes that donations to Harvard inevitably have, we most object to what is perhaps the crux of his argument, which is that America’s oldest university has less of a “moral claim” on donations than do other colleges and universities with fewer resources...