Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Smalley worried because he could see a familiar pattern forming, born of his shame over not being able to support his child, the feeling of inadequacy and the strain on his relationship with the baby's mother. He resisted joining the ranks of young black fathers who cut out on their kids because they will not face the pressures of parenthood, but he could not see how to break the cycle -- until he learned from a friend about the Responsive Fathers Program at the Philadelphia Children's Network...
Many producers mention the proximity of WGBH, a major public television broadcasting company in Allston. WGBH provided a lot of work for free-lance filmmakers in the 1960s, 70s and 80s, says Schwartz. Independent filmmakers following the "pattern," he says, would work as freelancers at WGBH, leave to pursue their own projects, and them return to the company. Much of the freelancing "pool" at WGBH was made up of Cantabrigians, he says...
...years proved an uplifting time for the Catalans. They were years of economic expansion and political self-assertion. Before Columbus ever sailed for the New World, the allied kingdoms of Catalunya and Aragon already possessed a far-ranging Mediterranean empire. And in what was to become a predictable pattern (aside from the city's prodigious capacity to re-invent itself time and time again), the citizens of the city fought for their rights during many nerve-fraught periods. Their successes are notable: the Usatges, for instance, dates from a century before the Magna Carta and is essentially a medieval charter...
Beyond this year's election, Democratic leaders last week said they see a pattern of ascendance for women in politics...
...architectural fragments included in this show -- capitals and bases from the 10th century caliphal period, for instance -- one sees the forms of Roman antiquity dissolving into the Islamic taste for allover pattern; eaten away by deep carving, a recognizably Ionic capital turns into a web of exquisite stone lace, a sort of architectural counterpart to the deeply incised ivory caskets and pyxes favored by the courts of al-Andalus. One of the most impressive bowls in this show, a deep conical form bearing on its inside surface a design of a Portuguese nao, or trading ship, so powerful...