Word: cluster
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Diagnosis: agoraphobia, the most common and disabling of all the phobias, one that may afflict as many as 2.5 million Americans?85% to 90% of them women. Classically known as "fear of open spaces," agoraphobia is actually a cluster of different fears, all amounting to intense anxiety about panicking in unfamiliar situations. Crowds are no protection; Oppenheimer suffered one attack while surrounded by 55,000 fellow Met fans at a playoff game. Severe agoraphobics stick to familiar routines and rarely venture out alone. When they do travel, they usually bring along a friend, child or dog as a prop...
...Housing Council decided last spring to invite blacks to shop for homes in the valley. Aided by grants from the Ford Foundation and local real estate people, the council launched a $92,000 publicity campaign, distributing glossy brochures in the wealthier Los Angeles subdivisions where black professionals tend to cluster. The brochures showed blacks playing tennis on valley courts and partying on the sundecks of $60,000 ranch homes. Black radio stations broadcast a jingle urging Los Angeles listeners to "Move on in, move on into the valley...
...gifted with jazz as he is with Tchaikovsky. Rostropovich caught the spirit easily, bending his body into the music, shafting his cues with a vigorous baton, sculpting the shapes of sound with his left hand, now kneading, now pleading, now punching his fist to bring home a thunderous cluster of dissonance...
...each side will form-as Brezhnev has long demanded-the core of a new eight-year agreement. The ceilings, however, will be lowered (perhaps as much as 10%) from the Vladivostok limit of 2,400 launchers (including long-range bombers) of which 1,320 can be armed with the cluster warheads known as MIRVS (multiple, independently targeted, re-entry vehicles...
Largely ignored by critics outside Europe, the most important cluster of modern art exhibitions the world has seen this year is running (until Oct 16) in Berlin. "Trends of the Twenties," set up by the Council of Europe, contains four exhibitions: some 3,000 paintings, drawings, sculptures, photos, models' posters, documents and every imaginable sort of artifact, from a suprematist teacup by the pioneer Russian abstractionist Kasimir Malevich to a Bauhaus gramophone. The exhibition catalogue is as thick as a brick; one needs persistence, but is richly rewarded. For "Trends of the Twenties" offers a vast and unique panorama...