Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This exemplified a general pattern at the reception. While politicians talked about meaningless topics such as their latest pay raise, the wives frantically tried to give out (and receive) real information. Their prime function was to tell as many people as possible about their husband's latest achievement...
...Factor in the overwhelming superiority of the American military, and it might as well be 1,000 to 1. Similar odds prevailed during Ronald Reagan's conquest of Grenada in 1983 and his eleven-minutes-over-Libya bombing raid against Muammar Gaddafi in 1986. A none-too-edifying pattern is emerging in the late 20th century. Since conflicts between nuclear-armed big boys may lead to Armageddon, being a superpower has come to mean roaring at mice -- picking on someone emphatically not your own size. Presidents claim, and usually get, domestic credit for standing tall against pygmies. But they cannot...
...activities of three big trading blocs will have political consequences. I think we are already in the midst of this, and the pattern is not going to be fair trade or protectionism but reciprocity...
That is not good journalism. But it is usually good reading. And for that reason alone, the pattern is certain to be repeated many times over...
Strasser's modernism does not mean that his interiors are unswervingly "honest." In the kitchenettes at Computer Associates, the black-and-white sobriety is relieved by a goofy pony-skin-pattern Formica counter, and structural columns in the cafeteria are nicely echoed by fake columns across the room. More typically, at the CRSS Dallas offices (which Strasser also designed), the handsome patterns of sprinkler heads in the ceiling are a game: some are real, others are small air-conditioning vents, still others are dummies, there simply to complete a pattern. What would otherwise be prosaic necessities, scattered helter-skelter, become...