Word: patternings
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...events, though often unpredictable and rife with irony, too obviously functions as a frame for a reverential parade of largely tiresome symbols and ideas. There’s something for everyone: religious satire for the agnostics, a bumbling justice system for the cynics and a hands-as-plot-catalyst pattern for the hand fetishists...
...Each of the "acts" followed this reading-discussion pattern. After Tom Hart came James Romberger and Marguerite Van Cook, who collaborate on a sci-fi/urban nightmare series called "Ground Zero." Following them Megan Kelso ("Queen of the Black Black"), resembling the dark-haired Enid from Dan Clowes' "Ghost World," read from her up-coming graphic novel "Artichoke Tales." Lastly, the headliner, Charles Burns, whose work has appeared since the early 1980s, took the stage. A master of the color black (his pages are more ink than paper) Burns specializes in creepy stories filled with disease, freaks and teenagers. Reading...
...pattern of attacks and deployments right now suggests nobody's expecting the imminent collapse of the Taliban. Instead, they're strengthening and resupplying opposition forces and grinding away at Taliban supply lines and defenses, hoping to prevent the ruling militia from regrouping before the grueling winter sets in. A war of attrition, then, if the politicians can hold the line...
...today's war against terror, the Bush Administration and trade promoters in Congress and business are battling to resist the historic pattern in which commercial shipping becomes target practice and borders become moats. Since Sept. 11, President Bush and his emissaries have emphasized that agreements to lower trade barriers can help attract and hold allies to the antiterror campaign by bringing needed jobs and income to impoverished regions. "The launch of a new global trade round is important for economic recovery in the short term and for economic growth over time," U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick told TIME. "A signal...
...Israeli-Palestinian conflict has fallen into an easily discernible pattern: a Palestinian terrorist kills Israelis. Israel assassinates suspected terrorist leaders or invades Palestinian towns to arrest those believed to be responsible, often killing non-terrorists in the process. Then another act of terrorism is launched against Israel in retaliation for the arrests and deaths, and the vicious circle continues...