Word: mereness
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...best race ever, and one that would haunt her, Evans hollowed out East Germany's big, powerful Heike Friedrich with an astonishing 4:03.85, an entirely unexpected clocking that knocked 1.6 sec. off her own world record. Her time in the 800-free victory that followed was a mere Olympic record of 8:20.20--3 sec. short of the world record that she had set some months earlier. It was worth little more than a nod. Janet had taken care of business, but gee, better luck next time. And indeed in 1989, in Tokyo, she did lower her 800-free...
...human, and the battle he faces against himself in July imbues him with a mortality that he seemed to lack before. In the process, it restores dimensions of mystery, suspense and, should he win the gold, redemptive grace to a man who once personified mere majesty...
...work on a related idea known as topological quantum field theory, which allows physicists to find connections between seemingly unrelated equations, has earned Witten the Fields Medal, the mathematical equivalent of the Nobel Prize. That's no small feat, considering that mathematicians usually look down on the dabblings of mere physicists...
...enjoy the spectacle of power in its full amplitude these days, you have to go outside Washington altogether. It is in the globe-spanning fields of entertainment and communications, where mere governments are just so many obstacles to the corporate game plan, that you see power with all its cellular phones blazing. When Rupert Murdoch wants something--the Times of London, a fourth network, broadcast rights to N.F.L. games, his own 24-hour cable-news operation--he gets it with a panache that is as entertaining, and as chilling, as anything in Citizen Kane. If Machiavelli were alive today...
...feel it particularly in Cezanne's series of landscapes of his "sacred mountain," Mont Sainte-Victoire. Now it is a mere shimmer of profile in a watercolor, whose blank paper becomes the white light of the Midi, burning through the pale flecks of color. Elsewhere, in the late oils, it achieves a tremendous faceted density, that crouched lion of rock. In between there are lyrical tributes to it, as in Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from Bellevue, 1882-85, where it appears almost shyly on the left of a tender, early springtime landscape, all new green, traversed by an aqueduct (sign...