Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shin-splinting fanciness, as in the mambo. It is less taxing than the tango, which caught on anew with the Broadway success of Tango Argentino, a show that spawned a fast-stepping tour and any number of gift certificates for dancing lessons. "Merengue's not a real complicated step pattern," says Lynne Frazier of the Arthur Murray Dance Studio in Burlingame, Calif. "You're not fighting to keep up with your feet...
...however, has been charged with those slayings. The Castellano hit may not come up at the racketeering trial of Gotti, his brother Eugene and four Gambino associates. But two other murders and a conspiracy to commit murder are among 15 crimes that the Government says formed a pattern of participation in a criminal enterprise. The defendants are also accused of planning two armored-car robberies, other hijackings and gambling, and conspiracy to commit extortion...
...during the 1984 re-election campaign, and it may be growing. Republican Phillips thinks that support remains stable for the general outline of Reaganism. But two years ago, says Phillips, "even more Americans would have wanted Reagan's policies to be continued. Now, with problems in agriculture, the trade pattern and the endless budget and deficit crises, Americans have even greater doubts...
...legend. Yet he decided to remain as chairman and chief executive, leading to the departure of the man who had long yearned for the job, CBS President Frank Stanton. In the years that followed, Paley put a succession of heirs apparent into the president's slot and, in a pattern that became painfully familiar, fired them a few years later: Arthur Taylor (1972-76), John Backe (1976-80) and now Thomas Wyman...
...soothing precinct of his mother's remembered body. What anxiety was to Giacometti or sexual rage to Picasso, nurture and shelter were to Moore. His commitment to sculpture as an act of hollowing, modeling and smoothing the "body" of a single mass ran counter to the pattern of 20th century sculpture, which was to construct from disparate parts a shape that did not need to be felt with the hands, one in which sight preceded touch. (Who ever wanted to stroke a Gonzalez or a David Smith?) His impulse to preserve the traditional values of carving and casting went back...