Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...example of integrating community activities with the display of objects. European museums, like Paris' Louvre, originated with royal collections. In America, the old Ecole des Beaux-Arts temples were usually built to stand apart from the city's commercial bustle. The first modern museum to break the pattern was, appropriately enough, New York City's Museum of Modern Art, which in 1939 built its first new home in the heart of downtown. While the old museums featured formal, skylit rooms, MOMA presented its art on open, loftlike floors that could be partitioned or rearranged like stage sets...
Postel said that the current outbreak occured primarily among young people might be attributed to the virus's cyclic pattern and that possibly the present generation of college age students grew up without immunity...
...Eagle fans had special reasons to savor the win, as their team had finally escaped the can't win rap that had plagued it through three championship game losses to underdog opponents. But it certainly fit the pattern of the last few years B.C. could only win when least expected...
Some of the clothes are authentic military issue, sold as surplus or as substandard in some way. But increasingly they consist of commercially made imitations, usually cheaper than the real McCoy but not as durable. Most popular is the so-called Woodland pattern, one of two camouflage styles, along with Desert, currently being worn by U.S. troops in the field. The relatively low price (as little as $13 for a commercial knockoff of four-pocket pants, one of the hottest sellers; from $23 to $30 for the Government version) and the antichic chic have obvious attractions. Robin Figaro...
...commissioner described the frightening pattern of last week's actions this way: "First they moved to protect Reagan from any criticism and then they rushed to support his policies without study." Pendleton makes no bones about the Commission's alignment with the President: "The new commissioners are independent thinkers who happen to have ideologies compatible with the Administration...