Word: loops
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...also true that the candidates persist in being evasive about questionable episodes in their past. In Bush's case, it is what he knew as Ronald Reagan's Vice President about the Iran-contra scandal. His continued claim that he was "out of the loop" or "excluded from key meetings" when this murky, subterranean scheme was being hatched in the upper echelons of the Reagan Administration has been constantly challenged, notably by a 1987 memo dictated to an aide by former Secretary of State George Shultz...
European modernism "primitivized" Johnson, as though a feedback loop were running from the Cubists' and Expressionists' use of tribal African art to a black artist in a Danish fishing village. "I myself feel like a primitive man," he told an interviewer in 1935, echoing the modernist founding fathers (Gauguin, Van Gogh), "like one who is at the same time both a primitive and a cultured painter." In essence, as the sculptor Martin Puryear points out in the catalog, European modernism let Johnson see himself anew; it provoked him into negotiating "his racial dilemma as a black artist moving between several...
...lines were rattling, the tabloids were tattling, the gossips were thrown for a loop. Not since Arthur Miller wed Marilyn Monroe had Hollywood seen so unlikely a marriage of high and low popular art. This time the betrothed were two companies recognized as the best in their very different lines of moviemaking: Merchant Ivory Productions, the independent team responsible for such stately dramas as A Room with a View and Howards End, and the Walt Disney Studios, ace hucksters of no-brow cinema. Disney agreed to co- finance and distribute Merchant Ivory's films for the next three years...
That hands-off attitude is an apparent change from Perot's behavior in the business world. Former aides note that when Perot headed Electronic Data Systems, he exercised tight control over major policy decisions and had a penchant for cutting top aides out of the loop and playing one man against another. While he has allowed the political experts to plan among themselves, some in the campaign are worried that Perot might blow his stack if things begin to go wrong. In April he dressed down campaign chairman Tom Luce for not providing adequate briefing data during the taping...
Once asthma begins, it establishes a powerful feedback loop that may not even need an allergen to trigger an attack. General irritants such as cigarette smoke and urban smog can cause the already inflamed airways to constrict. "It is my opinion that parents or caregivers who smoke in the presence of a child are guilty of child abuse," says Dr. Allan Luskin of the Rush Medical Center in Illinois. "Smoke not only increases the risk of a child getting asthma in the first place, it makes asthma worse when it is there...