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...necessarily become sacred -- an end of the Wilsonian illusion. America, which once cherished the conviction that God had endowed its national idea, began feeling lost in what might be called the Brownian motions of history -- Brownian movement being the term for molecules that fly about with no discernible pattern or reason. The American pre-eminence in manufacturing is gone. A thousand hypodermic needles are punching through the nation's borders...
Pinochet's defiance produced a bizarre pattern of dancing and rioting in the streets. Police fired tear gas and water cannons at some antigovernment protesters in two days of clashes that left dozens wounded and two people dead. More than 20 foreign journalists were among the injured. On Friday hundreds of thousands of Chileans celebrated the no vote with a joyous rally in Santiago. Singing and swaying to music by popular groups, they called on Pinochet to step down...
...drawback to this Stonification process is that many of the songs follow the Stones pattern of taking an unadorned riff, establishing a groove with it and playing it for a long time without really taking it anywhere or building upon it. But what riffs! Keith plays as well as he always has, generating that unmistakable fuzztone sound that is his alone, and that redeems any flaws the songs may have...
...pattern they often repeated unsuccessfully, but in the recent Howard Beach case the strategy worked. As in the Brawley case, they refused to cooperate with the authorities until a special prosecutor was appointed to handle the case. As in the Brawley case, they got what they were more significant differences between the two incidents...
...official report on the financial results for the fiscal year 1987, Scott said, "Real increases of this magnitude are probably not sustainable in the future; the pattern will be closer to the historical one of a point or two above inflation...