Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first movement, for instance, a macabre pattern of faces appeared out of the darkness. The two principals seemed to be looking for something, then danced up to a violent climax and went away again, still looking. Of course, there were a couple of ragtime movements that seemed normal enough, with Tanaquil LeClercq kicking up her bobby-soxed heels. But how about that weird finale? A lot of faces began to show in the darkness, too far down to be full-grown dancers. It was pretty scary until the stage got lighter and it turned out that the girls and boys...
Most such movies about the FBI fall into a tiresome pattern. The criminals are incredible dabs at their work and the Federal agents are clean-cut, pin-stripey, night-school types of horrifying efficiency, who nevertheless have gentle eyes and a remote, dentist-like way of soothing frazzled women. From such pictures one would never guess that FBI men are policemen after all, just doing a dirty job well. For that they certainly deserve respect, but hardly all the candy hearts and artificial flowers...
...Familiar Pattern. More immediate and more vexing than the problem of Formosa was the threat to Quemoy. In a little more than two weeks the Chinese Communists had lobbed 10,000 shells on Quemoy and neighboring Little Quemoy. The Reds were reportedly building up their forces along the mainland coast. From Quemoy's batteries, and from their own destroyers, the Nationalists retaliated with shellfire; from Formosa, with air-delivered bombs...
...wrong to consider that the Communists will invade other countries," said Bevan. "They propose peaceful coexistence of the East and West camps." China, he predicted, "will not be content to play second fiddle to the Soviet Union." Communist Chinese leaders seemed to have "great elasticity" compared to the "set pattern" of Russian thinking, Nye went on. "Soviet leaders when conferring with Malenkov seemed petrified with fear in his presence, rather than having respect...
...Take a Dime. In general, the pattern for wage settlements was set by the steelmakers. The steelworkers asked for a package totaling some 50? an hour a worker (TIME. May 31), settled for 9? to 12? (including 5? in wages). Last week smaller steel fabricators were settling along the same lines with the union, and in some hardship cases were even getting concessions in their contracts. In Pittsburgh a number of building-trades unions signed new contracts this summer with no raise at all. The C.I.O. United Rubber Workers went after a reported 12? raise this year. They settled with...