Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Telling one's husband to cut the lawn and seeing it done are two different things. Five days after Elizabeth's suggestion, nothing had changed. That's becoming a Dole campaign pattern--promises without follow-through. (Dole talked about convening some wise elders two months ago but dropped that ball.) This time, it wasn't clear from the family meeting who would select the new broom or carry out this housecleaning. Nor did Dole and his wife discuss any names. Instead something worse happened: news of the Doles' grumbling spread through Republican circles, setting off a round of maneuvering...
...core of nobility and tragedy. It breaks the heart still to think of Medgar Evers or Martin Luther King Jr., or the night Bobby Kennedy was shot. But so much of the time turned to meretricious junk, an idealism gone clueless and narcissistic. We saw traces of the pattern again in the case of the Unabomber, for example--Rasputin with a chemistry set. Or we felt the vibration in the dreamy, New Age utterances of poor seven-year-old Jessica Dubroff's mother...
...cards on the Internet as it is to do business by mail. The chances of being "ripped off" other than by the "advertiser," even without encryption, are trivial. Should it happen, there are numerous safeguards that limit a buyer's liability. My credit- card company, for instance, monitors my pattern of buying and calls me for verification if there are suspicious variations. JIMMIE R. MITCHELL Nokesville, Virginia...
...story is told through scenes of song and dialogue, interrupted by dances of various lengths. Although many of the dancers themselves are superb and a few of the dances, such as "Tornado"--in which the storm is portrayed by three pirouetting dancers, who bring Dorothy into their rhythmic pattern when she is sucked into the tempest--are original and engaging, much of the choreography eventually becomes dry and is not capable of sustaining energy between the scenes of dialogue. During the first act the disturbance created by the constant dance numbers severely breaks up and slows down the action...
...live in neighborhoods served by predominantly minority schools. Detroit's public school system is now 94% minority. By 1990, in the 18 largest Northern metropolitan areas, blacks had become so isolated that 78% of them would have had to move in order to achieve an evenly distributed residential pattern. The Milliken ruling, says Indiana University's Brown, "eliminated all hope of meaningful desegregation in most of the country's major urban areas...