Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...elected, "probably" veto the ban. A day later, Dole issued long-awaited platform language on abortion that reaffirmed the party's strong antiabortion plank just a month after he promised to temper it. By Friday the irresolution on assault weapons looked less like a mistake and more like a pattern...
...Camp). Jamie, already a depressed and cynical alcoholic, is now devastated by his mother's relapse and brother's illness, blaming his father's stubborn cheapness for both. As the day wears on, accusations, guilt and motivation for inexplicable past acts are revealed one by one, until a tragic pattern emerges, which the characters seem hopeless to escape...
...elected, but can he govern? At 65, he is already well past the average life-span of Russian men, and since July 1995 he has had at least two episodes of myocardial ischemia, a shortage of blood supply to the heart. He also has a long pattern of rising to crises and then withdrawing into spells of depression and heavy drinking, though this time he promised voters he would not "go into hibernation." He cannot afford to. Reform of the Russian economy is still a work in progress, and his lieutenants are already circling one another in preparation...
...that erupted while Washington was still trying to digest dueling reports from Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Whitewater Committee. Thirteen months of hearings produced 768 pages from the Republican majority claiming "a pattern of deception and arrogance" by the White House. In the aftermath of Vince Foster's suicide, their version goes, Hillary Clinton tried to keep federal investigators out of his office to protect files on Whitewater and the firings at the White House Travel Office. Then White House aides stonewalled before the committee, the Republicans contend. Their report also names the First Lady as the person most...
...this technique were not enough to squelch narrative interest in her people, Proulx often introduces parenthetical flash-forwards detailing the ways in which her characters will die: "(Some year or two later, Snakes, using a climbing rope with a single core in a color pattern of purple, neon pink, teal and fluorescent yellow, hung himself in the cab of his truck. A note on the seat read, 'I'm not going to wear glasses.')" The emphasis in this passage pervades the entire novel: things survive and are worth careful descriptions, while people are passing fancies. That could have been conveyed...