Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Characteristically, though, he understates the change. "I don't think it was as dramatic a break as people have said it was." He averts his eyes; he's probably had to explain this before. "The pattern, the abstract form, has a life cycle...It seemed to me, maybe 20 years ago, that the iambic pentameter had become extremely dull...I think that's changed. I think some people now are writing it in a way that's interesting...And my own new book is quite formal--in a different...
...Moscow to visit Uncle Chinh. The technique becomes annoying in the almost immediate realization that the past is much more interesting than the present. When Hang recalls the past, she seems to do so in graphic color; the present appears bleak and bland in contrast. Perhaps Duong uses this pattern intentionally, for it correlates to her own life, in which once hopeful and passionate support of communism has faded due to present-day realities...
...matter--Harvard won, but concentration lapses have plagued the Crimson all year. Earlier this season, the team fell into a pattern of playing an outstanding first half followed by a sub-par second half...
...been long enough that they should have come to a conclusion," said McCombe, the union steward who has charged department managers with a "pattern of retaliation" against guards who made charges. "This really started in 1990. I want to know why it takes so long to get an answer...
...shook her head in horror as an FBI official offered a graphic description of human waste being thrown outside in pails. There was some discussion of child abuse, at which point Reno asked the FBI, "You mean, slapping them around?" They said yes, and talked about the "ongoing pattern of young girls in there being sexually abused." At around 7:15 p.m. she approved the operation. By 7:40 Saturday night Reno went home...