Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...young king: Arthur's courting of Guenevere: the establishment of Camelot: the love triangle of Arthur. Guenevere, and Lancelot: the search for the Holy Grail: the power struggle between Arthur and his half-brother/son (through incest) Mordred. Alas, the film stumbles between episodes, failing to connect the careful pattern of events coherently. The numerous battle scenes--exciting, if a bit gratuitously gory--always run too long. Even the tone of the film vacilates between tongue-in-cheek humor, and at other times, terrible solemnity. Perhaps, the scope of the legend overwhelmed Boorman. But whatever the reason for Excalibur...
...East Room, Reagan gave a pep talk. He quoted Thomas Paine, declaring, "We have it in our power to begin the world over again." Then followed short meetings with his senior staff in the Oval Office and a national security briefing. All were in the normal workday pattern...
...American assassins fit this group portrait: a young white male, a failure and a drifter, unloved and unloving; sexually dissatisfied, he has little or no contact with women. Ordinary murderers often come from violent homes or were violent as youngsters. But the assassins are deceptively calm, even passive. The pattern is that of shy, well-behaved, often mousy loners, whose efforts to control themselves succeed, until pressures explode in an assassination attempt...
...last week's proposed new contract between major Eastern coal-mine operators and the United Mine Workers. The contract, which is expected to be ratified this week, would give the miners a 36% wage and benefits increase over the next three years. The coal settlement could set a pattern for other major labor contract negotiations scheduled for later this year, most notably in the aerospace and construction industries. In recent years, one union's inflationary wage settlement has generally become the next union's negotiating floor. But that trend may be ending, especially in the auto, steel...
Inflation is battering family budgets, and it will be difficult for consumers to keep up the high-consumption pattern of the past year. The average family's real spendable earnings, the amount left after inflation and taxes, has declined by 4.4% over the past year. While Congress argues over the proposed Reagan tax cut, consumers could stop buying and depress the economy even further. For millions of Americans and for their economy as a whole, that tax cut cannot come soon enough...