Word: mosaicism
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...Senator from New Hampshire, Gordon Humphrey, found like many of his fellow ideologues that the Carter address was appallingly weak. Liberals like Ted Kennedy were skeptical of the idea of reconstituting the draft in peacetime. Across the House floor there seemed to be chunks and pieces of a national mosaic but nothing holding them together. New Jersey's Millicent Fenwick was most animated when Carter mentioned women's rights. Republicans stirred themselves only slightly above polite applause when Carter promised to continue his vain efforts to balance the budget. Each had his or her interest by which...
Crime, poverty, racial tension. The symptoms are so depressingly similar from one urban center to another that they are often lumped together in one catchall phrase: "the problem of the cities." Politically, however, the cities make up a complex and ever shifting mosaic, as local elections across the nation demonstrated last week. In general, the cities' voters remained loyal to incumbents, and still more so to the Democratic Party. But there were strong crosscurrents of change in some big cities. Most notable: the sudden rise to prominence of new voting blocs in Houston, Miami and San Francisco...
Martin has constructed the play so skillfully that past and present join to form an artful mosaic. Though they never appear onstage, all those close to Stein, particularly her brother Leo and her lover Alice B. Toklas, are given life by her recounting. To help her memorize her difficult role, Carroll sought the help of a hypnotist. If this mesmerizing performance is any guide, she appears to have learned the hypnotist's art herself...
...Then I looked a little closer and noticed a construction crew working out on the street. With mean jackhammers and hard, old faces, they penetrated concrete and dredged up sludge. Scrubby, spotless students passed them by with remarkable direction and oblivious, vacant expressions. They continued like a stream of mosaic colors, and the noise became louder; orange cement mixers whirling and turning and the tools spitting out their dense, metallic noises; they got louder and louder, so loud that I blocked my ears and worried that my neighbor might come to complain about the stereo again. But it was real...
...taken 500 miles of driving and ten hours, but Moore has caught his tornado, and it didn't catch him. The 11 ft. of film on which he captured nature's awesome dervish will be scrutinized by NSSL scientists and added to the incomplete yet growing mosaic of knowledge about storms that kill an average of 250 people a year and do a billion dollars worth of damage...