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One of them — Splendid China — purports to show “all of China in one day. ”
It is important to identify a reference standard to which a palpatory diagnostic test is compared to ensure that it actually measures what it purports to measure (i.e.
A poll purports to tell you something about the population at large, or at least the population from which the sample was drawn (for example, likely Democratic voters in New Hampshire).
After trying his hand at Disney, philanthropy, Broadway, and professional sports, he is returning to the pinnacle of the Hollywood hierarchy through his new Artists Management Group, which purports to give clients more control of their "product."
The film, which purports to explore the circumstances under which a celebrated anthropologist, Ethan Powell (Anthony Hopkins), disappeared among Rwandan gorillas and emerged two years later as a mute and wild-eyed killer of park rangers, is loaded with radical credos--ideas evocative of Kafka, deep ecology, and Dian Fossey at her most gorillaphilic.