Word: interwoven
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...experience from 1964 to 1969. As Americans teaching English at the Peking First Foreign Language Insitute, they were in the middle of the factional disputes that tore apart university campuses throughout China, as well as being involved in the debates within Peking's small foreign community. Their narrative is interwoven with description of the events in their own microcosm of China's students, giving the book the sense of being a traveller's tale as well as a well-researched academic work. Like William Hinton's Fanshen, The Wind has an impact a straight history could not have achieved...
Clearly the quickest way to cut through the interwoven problems is to discard the rigid traditions. Though the White Paper recognizes that solution, its authors correctly fear that the old traditions are far too deeply entrenched to be changed without tremendous dislocations in Japanese society. Big corporations have avoided the issue so far by choosing an alternative answer: to cut the number of new workers hired while keeping productivity per worker high with more automation in factories. This year, for example, the giant Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co. will take on only 700 new workers to replace...
...might at first be worth 10; but an entirely different bumper--or a set of bumpers, or a hole, or an alley--could increase its value to 100. The pinball machine, at first no more than a collection of independent lights and bumpers, had become a complex map of interwoven, interrelated features...
...Writer-Director Philippe Mora has organized the footage and orchestrated it to a period score that runs from Duke Ellington and Woody Guthrie through Rudy Vallée and Ginger Rogers. There is no narration, hardly ever a title to identify a person or event. Fact and fiction are interwoven without distinction. For Mora, the hard reality of the Depression is inseparable from all the fancies it produced...
...Wahlöö died at 48 of pancreatic disease. Since his widow does not intend to continue their Martin Beck series, the literary toll seems higher than the one in the bus. It is as if an entire family of friends were abruptly wiped out. Few thriller writers have interwoven so many good recurring characters with their plots; only the late Margery Allingham comes to mind...