Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...main factor in the upset of Princeton, but Yale's use of a man in motion, along with a trailer back, baffled the Tigers and gave the Bulldogs an added boost. Yale alternated between the slot-T and the straight-T formations for the first time Saturday, following the pattern the Crimson had employed against the Tigers with some success...
...this pattern of selling sex and violence for their own worth is characteristic of the modern European cinema, as Bosley Crowther suggested in the Times, one hopes that a change in the wind will be shortly forthcoming...
...pattern has been similar in all the beatings. A local youth would be walking the streets alone at night. Suddenly he would find himself surrounded by five or six other youths. Then he would be beaten to the ground...
Through the use of symbol-studded poetry, music, and dancing, Yeats tried to build a ritual pattern, every part of which must be fully apprehended before the play can be understood. Even then, the story of a poet who chooses a mysterious queen as the ideal figure of his verses, only to be beheaded by her jealous husband, is open to a multitude of different interpretations. But Liam Clancy, the poet, and Lew Petterson, the king, do violence to Yeats' poetry by speaking in a falsely declamatory manner. And John Lancaster's music usually conceals the playwright's words rather...
...most unusual movie, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre proves that the melodramaticgenre need not follow a pattern--there is scarcely a woman in the movie, and one is slightly uncertain if there is a hero--and that it can have a considerable intellectual as well as emotional impact...