Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dreary, patronizing, untranscendent country numbers, and "Shot With His Own Gun," a song for your daddy with a tune too feeble to accommodate the tragic sourfulness Elvis pours into it. "Clubland" is diverting but stupid, with a deadly, unexpansive chorus that endlessly rehashes a bottom-of-the-barrel pattern of notes. Which leaves, among other things, a nice, tinny, almost Brechtian exhortation to immorality in "Fish 'n' Chips Paper" (ironic, of course, but, unlike Brecht, pessimistic), and a delicate number called "Big Sister's Clothes" that exemplifies the change in Elvis's thinking...
...labor and energy costs continued to shoot up, fares generally were paying only about half the operating costs. Increased ridership actually exacerbated the problem: rush-hour crowds require heavier overhead, but do not generate enough revenue to cover all off-hour operations. A pattern emerged in which budget deficits were picked up by the Federal Government or, more often, the states. The politics of mass transit sharpened old rivalries: downstate vs. upstate, rural vs. urban...
...readers of this novel are more fortunate. Whatever its flaws, Creation offers a leisurely guided stroll through a complex era. The book is encyclopedic enough to be short on intrinsic pattern; it is also filled with information, oddities and wonder. -By Paul Gray
...improved, they say, if enough citizens turn their fear and anger into the kind of public pressure that will make a difference. Above all, the experts argue, citizens must care about their neighbors' safety as well as their own. Perhaps for too long America has persisted in the pattern Alexis de Tocqueville noted so long ago: a nation where "each person, living apart, is as a stranger to the fate of all the rest...
...case of mis-billed calls, we attempt to straighten out the problem." Charles Reardon, a spokesman for the New England Telephone public relations department said yesterday. "However, if we see a pattern, that is, if we think some type of fraud is involved, we refer the matter to our security division, which then decides how to proceed," he added...