Word: humanization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Wheatstone Bridgedouble differential CH3C6H2 (NO2)3 set. These people are mere cogs; automata; they simply feel to make sure you have punched the right holes. As they cannot think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want to read? How, in a word, can he be snowed...
...number of people who have gone to Antarctica is smaller than the attendance at this year's Rose Bowl game, but those few have had a disproportionately large impact. Because plants and animals, along with human outposts, are largely confined to the 2% of Antarctica that is ice-free for part of the year, the world's most sparsely populated continent is, paradoxically, overcrowded. The Antarctic Peninsula is particularly in demand, with 13 stations; King George Island, one of the South Shetland Islands, is home to an additional eight. Planes, helicopters, snowmobiles, trucks and bulldozers are in constant operation throughout...
...treats melodramatic subjects with clinical dispassion. Chabrol never coddles viewers; he trusts them to sort out the evidence. His Marie is too complicated to be either a monster or a savior. And Huppert's beautifully deadpan performance finds the ideal emblem for Marie, a vessel empty of everything but human contradictions...
...coded significances, makes him seem a dandy candidate for a guru. If he ever went public, he could be buried in acolytes overnight. Which is a fine reason for Pynchon to stay right where he is, in enviable possession of a mystique far bigger than any single, flawed, vulnerable human...
Last week's eruption had been building for a month. Early in December demonstrators in Nakhichevan, an autonomous region separated from the rest of the republic by a strip of Armenian territory, formed a human chain along the Iranian border and called for the union of the two parts of Azerbaijan. Two weeks later the Popular Front sent an ultimatum to KGB troops guarding the frontier: if fences and barriers were not removed, the Front would tear them down on Dec. 31. KGB commanders made a few concessions -- some crossing points were opened for those who had business or wished...