Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...technical feats strike the eye as visually attractive and ingenious, but they don't fit into any one pattern or interpretation. Rather, Warner seems confused about where in time to place this play. While the long flowing gowns suggest antiquity, for instance, the beer and television are unmistakably modern...
...years have passed, Kennedy has been inevitably caught up in the pattern of idolatry and revisionism. All presidential reputations ride up or down upon wind currents of intellectual fashion and subsequent history, the perspective of the present constantly altering interpretations of the past...
Kennedy's team of White House men, according to Historian Joan Hoff-Wilson, began the pattern in which Congress and the federal bureaucracies became adversaries of the White House rather than partners. "That kind of privatization and centralization of power in and around the White House clearly begins with Kennedy," says Hoff-Wilson. For men who put such a premium on brains and information, the elite around Kennedy sometimes seemed either exceptionally naive (about the Bay of Pigs, for example) or ignorant (about Vietnamese history and culture). Some of the same men stayed on with Johnson, and presided over...
...plastic tank. The car's automatic cruise control measures the distance to the vehicle in front by radar and microwave, warns the driver if the car gets too close and decelerates if the person fails to slow down. The drowsiness monitor checks the person's driving pattern. If he appears inattentive or reaction time is slow, a female voice gently says, "You are getting drowsy, please rest...
...government--the only international voice to speak out in favor of the referendum--will also toe the new South African line. With the advent of the Reagan Administration a pattern of "constructive engagement" with South Africa reversed the legislation of the Carter era. Although the House voted last week to put severe restrictions on future American loans and investments to South Africa, most Americans still cling to the overly pessimistic view of peaceful change in the country...