Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sally: Gray and blue lights illuminate the expressionistic sponge-painted walls, lending the place an ominous, expressionistic feel. On one wall, the light system projects a swirling iridescent pattern. Looks like amoebas swimming in an oilslick. I think this is the dance floor...
...troubling questions loom as the East Europeans slowly turn capitalist. Will they have the patience to endure still more dislocation? And will the pattern of optimism, pain and disillusion be repeated in Russia, on a vastly greater scale and with far more dire consequences...
Occasionally, however, it all works out. The five-story Seattle Art Museum is good-size but hardly expansive. The interior is lucid and properly restrained. It is, in Venturi's famous phrase, a "decorated shed." Around the front doors, the facade is a riot of color, pattern and material: red granite topped by green, blue and yellow tiles, zigzags of terra cotta, bluestone squares and vaguely Moorish arches in sandstone. A grand staircase runs the length of the building, paralleling the street outside; in fact, the stairs become something of an interior street, giving on to an open-front mezzanine...
...there is a problem with Outerbridge Reach, it is not that some of its conclusions appear improbable but that its structure seems a tad too deterministic. Stone, at his highest pitch, is a poet of doom; his characters must confront nothing less than the implacable pattern that fate has handed them. When they think they are most in control, changing the direction of their lives, they are actually exposing themselves to ruin. To be safe is contemptible, to dare disastrous. That Stone makes exciting fiction out of this depressing scenario is the hallmark of his mastery...
Following an age-old pattern of Harvard men, Paul, J. Dean '94 said that, if all else fails, he'll go to Wellesley...