Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With her restless spirit, and the enlightened narcissism of the star performer, Nastassia has set a pattern for her affairs: love beautifully, leave quickly. "I always fall in love while I'm working on a film," she says. "It's such an intense thing, being absorbed into the world of a movie. It's like discovering you have a fatal illness, with only a short time to live. So you live and love twice as deeply. Then you slip out of it, like a snakeskin, and you're cold and naked. What worries me is that when these loves...
Epton continued his attacks on Washington's dubious financial past, charging that his conviction in 1972 for failure to file tax returns and the suspension of his law license for professional malfeasance represented "documented evidence of a long and disturbing pattern of behavior." Despite Epton's distinguished record of opposing racial prejudice, he continued to strike chords designed to appeal to fearful white voters. "Nothing will be done in this city without the consent of the neighborhoods involved!" he shouted in one ethnic area...
Invented and manufactured in Japan, the WallWalker has a certain Nipponese unpredictability: it never follows the same pattern twice in its wayward descent, seemingly pausing at times to reflect on its fate, at others engaging in a manic bout of activity. Many WallWalker buffs buy several of them at a time and mount a mural ballet. It is also cheap. More than 10 million in green, blue, yellow, red and black have been sold in the U.S. at between $1.69 and $2.50 since its introduction to a few cities late last year, and there are seemingly thousands more miles...
...this forum author David Solomon pointed out in his opening remarks that "Although many governments have attempted to eradicate the use (of cannabis) by declaring it illegal, in those areas where it has become part of the cultural pattern (as if Africa, India, Asia, and Latin America) no authority has been able to suppress it for long." Solomon believes the issues raised by the existence of psychoactive substances transcend the risks and benefits of any particular drug: "No social authority can successfully arrogate unto itself the right to dictate or fix the levels of consciousness to which man may aspire...
Artistically and sociologically, [Latin music] is a ghetto. Latin music plays its own concert circuit, with its own record labels, radio stations and [usually Spanish language] fan magazines...Success is purchased at the price of a steady pattern of exploitation and corruption that is less obvious now in the upper reaches of the mainstream pop-music business. And whatever success a Latin performer does achieve is source by an awareness of the greater success available on just the other side of the street, and by the strictures that tradition and subcultural rigidity place on a creative composer...