Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Atlanta, which is 60% black, crime had followed a grimly familiar pattern. Most violence occurred in largely black areas, where the city's largely white police force was least effective. Eaves, now 41, took on his $34,000-a-year job with a simple conviction: "Blacks suffer the most from crime, and if given a chance to relate to the police, they will help fight...
Taxing Subtleties. The art of making steel reached its peak in Japan before the 16th century. Our present technology can dump men on the moon, but it cannot match the crystalline structure, hardness, flexibility and exquisite surface pattern of these ancient blades made in charcoal forges. Compared to Nippon-tō, the swords of Europe are kitchen cutlery...
...great blade are taxing. No gaze through a glass case can substitute for the experience of holding and turning it under natural light, observing the grain of the steel surface, the contrasts of polish, the relentlessly delicate curves of ridge and back, and the hamon or temper pattern-hard as diamonds and impalpable as blown frost-along its cutting edge...
...edge pattern, made by painting a slurry of clay and steel filings along the blade just before its last firing and quenching, is even more pictorial. Its crystalline opacities resemble those of classical sumi-e ink painting, suggesting hills, river currents, islands or the wreathing of vapor. Dr. Compton likes to compare Kunimune's hamon to "low-lying mist on a swamp, with searchlights playing over it." These configurations are not seen as decoration, like inlay work or chasing on a Western sword...
...room is teeming with people, employees of a Boston restaurant, each of them moving in a proscribed pattern, oblivious to the others, looking very much like puppets whose strings have been cut. Now their voices are competing with the music and you realize that author Arnold Wesker has unwittingly blown the cover on his melodramatic portrayal of working-class life. It was a nearly flawless imitation, yet no more human than that electronic melody. Wesker found himself with puppets on his hands, and he had to invent an improbable murder scene at the end to lend some dramatic force...