Word: mereness
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...crossing incidents, or the steps taken after Lowry's death to fix the problem. But a February legal review, required before any court-martial, strongly criticized that approach: the jury, an Air Force lawyer outside the 52nd cautioned, might see Mueller as "a victim of poor policy" and a "mere scapegoat...
...least improve our life expectancies--the number of years even our shortened telomeres and caramel-gummed cells would allow us to achieve if illness didn't claim us first. For much of the time our species has been on the planet, that figure is thought to have been a mere 20 years--barely long enough for contemporary people living contemporary lives to move out of their parents' home. The fact that those lives now routinely exceed 80 years is a monumental achievement. A little more progress in studying telomerase, glycosylation and other aspects of senescence science, and researchers like Butler...
...already causing a stir in Hollywood with its burgeoning budget, which studio sources peg as low as $120 million and others put as high as $180 million. If the bigger estimates are correct, Titanic is in contention to be the most expensive picture ever made, surpassing Waterworld's mere $170 million budget. Throw in tales of the usual Cameron-generated on-set turmoil--plus an extraordinary incident in which virtually the entire cast and crew were dosed with PCP--and you have one of the most talked-about productions in years...
...statement shocks, as it was no doubt meant to, but it is a metaphor for Ellroy's narrative and investigative methods. Mere sentiment deflects the truth. Love and reconciliation can come only through knowledge, however horrifying. His journey toward his mother goes beyond the personal into a world of pain and redemption...
...reminder of a whole lost vocabulary of Broadway dance. John Kander and Fred Ebb's score is a model of its craft. No detachable love ballads here, just a stream of tuneful, witty numbers that make their point, engage the ear and evoke an era without sounding like mere pastiche...