Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Guardsmen and police from both Miami and Dade County, which surrounds the city, moved into the riot areas in force, the killing pattern changed. Nine blacks were either shot by the officers or struck by gunfire from unidentified sources. Allen Mills, 33, was shot five times by police at a roadblock in the riot zone. The officers claimed Mills had threatened them with a knife. Blacks at the scene contended that Mills was unarmed and had been shot repeatedly in the back. Police claimed that Elijah Aaron had first shot at them, then was killed in the return fire...
...dancers, and allowing a conventional style of portraiture, often as insipid as the $3 million Acrobat sold to Japan in last week's Garbisch auction, to alternate with a highly decorative form of cubism. "Decorative," of course, is no longer a cuss word, and his best flat-pattern cubist paintings of the early '20s, with their gravely shuttling collage-like overlaps of bright and dark color, are marvels of pictorial intelligence. The two versions of his Three Musicians, 1921, show what Picasso could do when his sense of form was fully engaged. The classicizing drift of the early '20s took...
...pants types, was the first, declares Martin, to identify Philby as a Soviet spy. The fact that Phil by traveled in the best circles did not mislead Harvey as it did others. In a memo digging into many dark corners of Philby's career, Harvey spelled out a pattern that led to the double agent's un masking...
Rico came "home" during the Blue Jays' second year, adding punch to a lackluster batting order. Bob Bailor, who his .310 the first year, faded in an injury-filled sophomore year. No beer was sold at Exhibition Stadium. The pattern of the losses was routinized; the city fell into the habits of despair...
...months ahead could be monstrously tense and bitter. They could also be magnificently fruitful. The continued honestly, courage and vision of the city's leaders, and of its people, are essential now; if the pattern of the last year is any clue, they are likely to be forthcoming...