Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...middle movement, to Façades, is as serene as its predecessor is clamorous. A lyrical melody floats above a simple, slightly shifting rhythmic pattern. A shadowy frieze of girls, tracing small, varied steps, embodies the pattern; two dancers (Maria Caligari, Bart Cook) perform a sinuous pas de deux to the melody. This is a mesmerizing piece. The last segment, to a boisterous excerpt from Glass's opera Akhnaten, is what his fans call "very Jerry": arms up, fingers splayed, keep it moving, get it right the first time. Across, around, up and down the stage sweep cadres...
...good and evil. Such has not been the case since roughly the time of Edmund Spenser and his Faerie Queene, yet Murdoch, a philosophy don at Oxford, has successfully built a career on this outdated literary genre. Her characters manifestly stand for abstract values; they are figures in a pattern of moral design and significance. The question in her fiction is not what happens but why. And allegory, in her hands, becomes a tool for testing, rather than affirming, beliefs...
...seemed that this year would fail into the same initial rejection pattern. Polish labor leader Lech Walesa received an internationally publicized invitation but was unable to accept. Instead, he offered a text, selections of which President Bok read at the June 9 ceremonies And as a result, the official address was delivered by Mexican writer ambassador Carlos Fuentes...
While not particularly new, the findings hit a nerve among parents who are increasingly concerned that their children are receiving an inadequate education and, in a depressing reversal of the traditional American pattern, an education inferior to their own. "It came at the right time, under the right auspices," says Jack Peltason, president of the American Council on Education. "It reconfirmed what a lot of people were saying...
...aftermath of the Brentwood tragedy follows a well-established and increasingly worrisome pattern in civil law: lawsuits aimed at wealthy or well-insured third parties rather than the people directly responsible for harmful acts. Says Professor Gary Schwartz of U.C.L.A.'s law school: "Robbers and muggers do not have liability insurance, and they do not have assets. The job of the lawyer is not simply to find the negligent party but the negligent solvent party." Russell Moran, editor of the New York Jury Verdict Reporter, puts it more bluntly: "A good lawyer will try to find anyone in gunshot...