Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...girl who is a twitchy, neurotic bundle of well-informed cliches and sterile sexual aggressions, lures, taunts, degrades and destroys a Negro in a Brooks Brothers shirt, but not before he tells her, with profane and explicit brutality, how much Negroes hate whites. Though his one-acter repeats the pattern of Albee's The Zoo Story, Jones captures the contemporary mood of violence with raw and nerve-tingling fury...
...been able to understand or accept or even get accustomed to our kind of reporting. They especially like coverage by reporters who use that frustrating and unrewarding technique of sending out just enough to stay in. What they read in their translations of TIME stories did not fit that pattern. Our stories on the Soviet Union come from a wide array of sources available to our writers and editors in New York and to our correspondents elsewhere around the world. Important among these is our Russian Desk in New York, staffed by specialists who work constantly at translating, studying...
...Mondrian met Bart Van der Leek, whose work (see opposite page), though sometimes representational, dealt with pure colors in flat planes. They tried to remove the traditional moat between the picture and the viewer. Mondrian's late paintings can be seen as the visible imprint of an invisible pattern surrounding the viewer. Even the walls of his stark studio were hung with movable panels that he rearranged to suit his desire, in effect making the studio a spatial work of art. Van der Leek used white in his work not as background but as space that separated his flecks...
...around any insert such as a plug or a threaded fitting. To expand a metal tube, a cylindrical coil is pushed inside it. A flick of the switch, and the tube expands to bind itself solidly to whatever surrounds it. To stamp a flat piece of metal with a pattern, a trademark of elaborate lettering, the metal is placed between a flat coil and a die. When the coil is activated, the opposing magnetic field in the sheet shoves it away from the coil and presses it into...
...test in the history of U.S. civil aviation. Financed by the Federal Aviation Agency at a cost of $168,000, the project was planned by private aircraft companies, commercial airlines and the National Aeronautics and Space Agency. Its aim: to test new passenger safety devices and to analyze the pattern of structural damage wrought by such an impact...