Word: mereness
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...halftime on Saturday, Harvard Coach Tim Murphy felt something needed to change. The offense had remained stagnant for yet another game. Junior quarterback Rich Linden had completed a mere five passes on 10 attempts for 50 yards. The score was tied...
...scramble for the same kinds of promotable stories that Dateline and 20/20 go after? "I would not like to see anything with the 60 Minutes name involved in the game of sweeps-week roulette," warns Hewitt. Will part-time stars like Rose and Rather turn out to be mere window dressing? And with only one of the four correspondents picked so far under 55 years of age (Mabrey is 42), CBS isn't exactly solving one rap against 60 Minutes: its older-skewing audience. In the cold, cruel Nielsen world, even a high-minded newsmagazine has to watch its back...
...traits have never disqualified anyone from sainthood, and nobody would doubt that Gaudi was in a general way a more saintly character than, say, Frank Lloyd Wright or Philip Johnson. But there is a deeper problem: the absence of miracles, which the Vatican authorities need as "verification of godliness." Mere piety is not enough for sainthood. No worker, so far, has fallen from the Nativity Facade of the Sagrada Famolia and been caught by an angel; no Japanese tourist has burst out with stigmata in the ticket line. The best that Almuzara and his devotees have been able to come...
...wasn't talking about the bogeyman, either--or maybe she was. The signal, recurring lesson of PJ Harvey's music, is that desire leads us dangerously, thirstily, curiously into places where we would otherwise fear to tread. Harvey's lyrics were too lacerating to be mere come-ons, but the potency and drama of her music worked like a snake charm. The album and the woman combined the terror and the wonder of a hydra...
...Journalists are not immune to cultural attitudes on this issue, nor are their sources," she said. "The challenge to journalists and their audience is not to settle for mere opinion but to seek the facts. As this study shows, after all, authorities have been wrong before...