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If philosophies of gardening were on a continuum, on one side you'd find Henry, the cynical optimist, and on the other Martha Stewart, the stern gardening Übermensch . He would have hated her, and she would be appalled by him.
Finally, Kinsey's insistence that there was no such thing as a homosexual--a subspecies of humankind--but only an infinite shading of variation, a continuum of practices, seems to have had more to do with his training as an entomologist than with the nature of his own desires.
In 1993 Hayes, who had returned to private legal practice and had begun to question his old single-minded formulation, proposed to Mayor-elect Rudy Giuliani that the court order be revised so that the city would guarantee the homeless the "continuum of care" that Cuomo had proposed, and the homeless in turn would be obliged to accept counseling, work training, and the like.
He does not dismiss the latter, recognizing the originality and strength of Kazimir Malevich, Aleksandr Rodchenko, El Lisitski, and their colleagues, but he wants us to pay attention to those other artists, many more in number, who do not fall seamlessly into the Modernist continuum but who often had to pay as harsh a price for their independence as their better-known avant-garde counterparts.
Odors are hardly presentable on a physical continuum (like the wavelength of light); they are multidimensional entities that can vary from small gaseous molecules to long-chained hydrocarbons [25,26].