Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lemon or a leaf, bathed in sunlit air. Sixty years have done little to blunt the impact of the flat-out chromatic intensity of some Matisses from the 1920s, like Anemones in an Earthenware Vase, 1924. The structure of the painting is as lucid as a theorem, with its pattern of rectangular hangings, panels and tabletop and the surging diagonal of the flowers in the vase, but the color -- pinks, carmines, chromes, lilacs and an orange that glows like a red-hot cannonball laid casually on the table -- would be disorienting if the strict harmony Matisse somehow imposed...
...transmitted diseases. "This has been a common denominator in all our cases," says Thomas C. Quinn, a senior investigator at the National Institutes of Health who has been studying the disease in Africa, where syphilis, gonorrhea, herpes and chancroid are common in AIDS victims. Quinn has observed a similar pattern in New York City and Miami. "Genital inflammation may increase susceptibility," says Quinn. "The virus may gain access via breaks in the skin due to sexually transmitted diseases...
...Consider that in the recession year of 1938 Roosevelt's Democrats lost 71 seats, in the recession year of 1958 Eisenhower's Republicans lost 48 seats, and in the recession year of 1982 Reagan's Republicans lost 26 seats. The five seat Republican loss of 1986 epitomizes the modern pattern of incumbent insulation. "All politics is local" exaggerates, but not much in the case of modern day House elections...
Meese's attempt to undermine the central role of judicial review does not come as a surprise. It fits in with a pattern of using his office to undermine Supreme Court decisions he disagrees with--for instance, those guaranteeing the rights of the accused and of the oppressed. There is no reason why everyone should agree with those decisions. But the fight against them can not be led from the office of the attorney general...
...Quadlings, who remain winless at 0-3, tallied in the second quarter on a 45-yd. touchdown pass thrown by Captain-quarterback Paul Hayward to J.J. Gass on a flag pattern...