Word: randomed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...possible alternatives, one of the most talked-about is the random lottery. But few students advocate this drastic a change, and Fox adds, "it would not be my choice...
More extreme would be the adoption of Yale's system, under which students receive random assignments to residential colleges before their freshman year begins. Although Yale freshmen live together in one area of campus as they do at Harvard, they begin making contact with their future residence early in the year...
...describes all proposal which caught the council's interest spring which is less extreme than the random lottery...
...years the writer-director has been devising scenarios of mastodon machismo (Jeremiah Johnson, Magnum Force, Big Wednesday, Apocalypse Now) in which Real Men-guys so tough you could ice-skate on them-attain a state of Zen purity through self-denial, cunning and random slaughter. But these films were like peace pamphlets compared with his latest crimson vision. In Red Dawn he and Co-Author Kevin Reynolds suggest that the U.S. is susceptible to military takeover by parachuting Communist troops; that the Soviets would establish "reeducation camps" in Colorado and show Ivan the Terrible at the local moviehouse; and that...
...random frenzy with which justice is dispensed at its end seems no more arbitrary than Moliere's happy ending. And Pintilie's humor, like Moliere's, is noisy, naughty and spiritedly physical...