Word: mereness
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Ryoo’s presentations, for instance, seem intentionally baroque and self-indulgent. They cleverly re-imagine older staples of the western art canon as food, a mere commodity. “Portrait (W. Pooh),” for instance—a bust of a chocolate bear—is absurd and self-effacing. Art, then, for Ryoo is its own subject—her photographs are a kind of meta-art. They suggest that artistic creation is subject to the same commodification as the boxes of Tide and cereal in Wing’s photographs...
...frequent debates between bigoted conservative Archie and his liberal son-in-law Michael mirror those between Alex and Steven Keaton. But while Archie Bunker’s children were adults who might be expected to challenge the crusty patriarch’s dogged views, the eldest Keaton siblings were mere adolescents. The uniqueness and cultural importance of “Family Ties” lie in the precocity of Alex, Mallory, Jennifer and even little Andy. Their maturity and wisdom created a world in which the children often raised their parents—as well as a political dichotomy shared...
...respiratory tract infection, which is what a cold gets called these days. Is this some weird corollary to the whooping cough rule - the less scary the disease, the scarier the name? I've even had my baby tested for anthrax. She didn't have it, even though we live mere blocks from a post office...
...That's the door that opened the second front in the U.S.'s war on terrorism. More than 200 U.S. troops are in the southern Philippines ready to join the fight against Abu Sayyaf, technically as mere "advisers." They're here to train and equip their Philippine partners and walk shoulder to shoulder with them through the jungle scouting out terrorists, pinning them down - and making sure the swinging doors and security holes that have kept Abu Sayyaf in business for so long are finally bolted shut and boarded over...
...reason? If fired from the West Bank, it's capable of reaching a number of few Israeli towns. Also, response time would be limited: while Israel would have a few minutes worth of warning to deploy defenses for attacks launched from far-off Iraq or Iran, it would take mere seconds for a missile fired from the West Bank to reach Israeli territory. And while the lumbering Scud launchers can be observed from satellites, the fold-up Qassam-2 can be concealed and assembled within minutes...