Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three doubles matches followed roughly the same pattern. The lone Harvard lapse occurred when Schneider and senior Kristin Mertz, playing in the second doubles spot, dropped a set at love in the middle of a three-set victory...
Streep's only rival in the film is its own structure. The Fowles-Pinter-Reisz creation is open film-making, with no secrets from the audience. You know the pattern from the first scene, when the actress crosses the set and becomes the character. The only problem with Pinter's structure is that you're never quite sure whether its form follows its function, or vice-versa. At times the two stories seem to have been contrived just to play off one another. The juxtaposition adds richness, though, if perhaps too few insights aside from biting reminders of our 20th...
...collision of white intransigence with Black aspirations makes revolution inevitable. Tofile expects a violent revolution to erupt within the next five years, if not sooner. Mazibuko sees a pattern of steadily escalating urban violence, with terrorist attacks on civilians. These incidents will be met with massive Government retaliation, which in turn will cause a mass, uncontrolled Black uprising. Beckett believes South African has about a 1 per cent chance of avoiding revolution. It will be a very long and drawn-out struggle, unlike any revolution in history, he said, adding that there has never been a revolution in a country...
...editorial on Gay Rights, for example, exposes the usual liberal pattern of favoritism for certain minority groups. Whether or not this is desirable remains beside the point here. The fact that this policy is veiled by the Crimson's cry of unfair treatment is particularly disturbing...
...dinner of stuffed capon and salade russe in the Trustees Room of the 42nd Street public library in New York City. The publishers created a minifair of their own: a table laden with U.S.-published books by Russian writers who are banned in the U.S.S.R. Said Bernstein: "The pattern of intimidation, of fear, of harsh sentences arbitrarily meted out to Soviet writers, scientists and thinkers who dare speak their minds is unacceptable. We will not be a party to it by conducting business as usual...