Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There will be hardly any pattern to the fares the travelers will pay: some charges will seem strangely high, others absurdly low. In New Haven, Conn., last week, bargain hunters snapped up promotional 75? tickets-a penny a mile-for New Air's inaugural flight to New York City's LaGuardia Airport. The fare will increase in stages to $32 by July...
...formation headed across the Gulf of Aqaba toward Jordan, following a top-secret route designed to take advantage of blind spots in Arab radar coverage along the borders of Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Iraq. The aircraft stayed close to the terrain, but varied their altitudes in a weaving pattern that had been tested by the Israeli Air Force as a means to further reduce radar visibility...
Sometimes, rather surprisingly, it is there. In particular it seems to lurk in the Mirrors, a series of paintings Lichenstein completed between 1970 and 1972. With their silvery surfaces, reflection lines and bevels and breaks in the light, which manage to function equally as pattern and as illusion (the mirror, in art, being one of the arenas in which both can live side by side), these paintings possess a ravishing formal elegance...
...Draper action, which John insists was not a deliberate attempt to get arrested, continues a pattern of activism he began in seventh grade with his eyebrow-raising nomination to the environmental board in his home town of Vernon, Connecticut. Since coming to Harvard, he has coordinated, among other programs, the Phillips Brooks House prisons committee and the Catholic Student Center social action committee, practiced civil disobedience at nuclear plant sites and abortion clinics, and lived with his door open to anyone without a home...
...trip back East are told in alternating chapters. Folded together this way, the two stories underscore Tremont's uneasy, mid-life situation. He cleans up for his ailing father and for his sloppy son; he sleeps, on different occasions, in the same room with both. Observing this pattern, he muses on its meaning: "I'm caught up, beached, between two tides, the old one of fathering-husbanding and the new one of aging-dying." occasionally, a third voice interrupts the narrative. It is Dad's mind, rehearsing the elaborative fantasy that has been a retreat for most...