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...staffer said yesterday that things will be "really chaotic" for a while...
...show are intentionally laden with metaphorical meaning. The fractal segment, in which these exotic patterns become visible on a screen as the Blue Men spread shaving cream with trowels, is significant to Blue Man cosmology. According to Stanton, the unpredictability of fractals, their structure which is both methodical and chaotic, reflects the randomness of modern life and proves that "We [mankind] are not that crazy after all." Goldman is intrigued that "patterns do a thing which nobody expected them to do, which is look more similar the more complicated they become...
...that draws him the nervous attention he has trouble comprehending. People in the movie business like to pretend they inhabit a rational universe, one where you can determine a star's course through a series of well-plotted career moves. Strolling equably through a universe he implicitly defines as chaotic, playing what amounts to a real-life Chili Palmer--mannerly, sweet-spirited, yet utterly confident of his own strength--Travolta calls all their operating assumptions into question. And deepens his own mystery...
...CHINESE, WHO HAVE SEEN THEIR SHARE OF HISTORICAL cycles, say there is a visible momentum governing human affairs. Their epic novel Three Kingdoms begins by declaring that empires rise and then fall into chaotic fragments; but from those many small kingdoms, powers coalesce to form new empires to restore order to the cosmos. A grandiloquent way of saying, Sometimes you're up, sometimes you're down, sometimes you're big, sometimes you're small. For those who believe in such chronic convulsions, the business world last week provided the spectacle of two cycles reaching opposite apogees at once, of simultaneous...
...have witnessed a relative peace here and some remarkable agricultural prosperity, and already there's a palpable resentment that the violence could come back as a result of this." Before Singh, Thompson says, Hindus were commonly hauled out of public buses and summarily shot. "Replacing that kind of broad, chaotic violence will probably be more of these selective bombings, which still aren't likely to put the Sikhs closer to their goal of independence...