Word: pattern
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...album presses onward to its most interesting track, "Transmitter Down." The climaxing pattern is still prevalent, but the rhythm is steady, and the choice and placement of samples are more inventive and interesting. The guitar distortion and synthesized beeps are steady enough to be danced to. This element, which is integral to the popularity of techno, is absent from Experiment Below. The rhythms are too haphazard to be heard at a dance club, but the melody patterns are too repetitive to be appreciated for its artistically creative elements. This places Hovercraft in a netherworld between light industrial and dance techno...
...know this is an election about turnout," said Vic Fazio (D-Calif.), a retiring House member who has served since 1978. He went on to speculate that the ongoing controversy surrounding President Clinton might break the historical pattern of strong Republican and weak Democratic turnout in mid-term elections...
Asia's rocky economics remains a problem. With China's exports down 6.7% last month and foreign investment predicted to shrink 30% for the year, the government has embarked on a huge program of domestic spending to stimulate demand. "It is the old pattern in China--three steps forward and two steps back," says Joe Zhang, head of China research for HSBC Securities in Hong Kong. "At the moment we are backtracking." Says Andy Xie, chief China economist for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter in Hong Kong: "If they continue, they will end up renationalizing the economy. And that...
What made the moment indicative of Torre's managerial competence was first that there was nothing overtly logical about his decision to remove Wells; he was simply following a pattern of using middle relievers that had worked in the past. Yet Wells took the decision amiably (it turned out to be correct). The huge, unkempt, Babe-Ruth-worshipping Wells, who is an emotional transparency, had an early-season run-in with Torre when he openly berated fellow players on the field for making an error. Torre informed Wells that teammates don't do that. From that point on, Wells...
Haikus are usually inspired by nature. But that makes writing haikus--three-line Japanese poems with a 5-7-5 syllable pattern--easy. Writing poetry when you have to spend your days listening to Bill Clinton or Limp Bizkit--that's hard. We asked some people thus employed to write a haiku about autumn...