Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Westermann. And then there are the quilts. The best products of America's 19th century women quilt makers anticipate many of the formal devices and color systems of Op art and color-field painting. Seen with an unprejudiced eye, the snap and sparkle of the piecework Cactus Rose-pattern quilt of 1875 can reduce a lot of modernist abstraction to visual mush...
Another key ingredient seems to be jurors' and judges' growing awareness of police perjury. Many officers "have become advocates in trials, convinced the end justifies the means," says former Los Angeles Prosecutor Johnnie Cochran, who is now a defense lawyer. The perjury pattern was noted judicially in 1965 by J. Skelly Wright of the D.C. Court of Appeals. After his court had admitted as evidence a defendant's "spontaneous apology" for a misdeed, Wright discovered that more and more police began testifying about suspects who "spontaneously and voluntarily" apologized-in effect, confessed to crimes...
...There's hordes of characters who fit the general pattern, and some wild ones too. There's a guy who lives between St. Augustine and Jacksonville who looks like Dan'l Boone, with buckskins and beard, and lives in an abandoned tourist camp. He's an old time musician mebbe 37-years-old, been giggin for 15. He carries a sawed-off shot gun and has a herd of goats runnin through his yard and a chicken house and a coupla hogs. He's real reclusive and don't want to meet nobody and he certainly knows the pleasures...
...Captain Senor Mouse" had that Latin infusion of style and tone, a lightness of attack and a notion of exploration. The feeling, finally, is that his piano work was nothing more than a dance through a field of potential notes, with stops at notes chosen randomly in an unconscious pattern. He deals in dialogues as well. He and Bill Connors matched phrases, tones, intensities, even notes throughout "Space Circus." He can even approach the night club intimacy of an Ahmad Jamal...
...there was mild protest from a part of the public, then a mild response from the Government. This was followed by escalated protest, then a panic response. Once the panic had passed, there was a revulsion against whatever concessions had been made or promised. As Hamilton sees it, this pattern of behavior contributed to the polarization of the '60s and discouraged conciliation...