Word: randomed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...refers, distantly, to Brancusi's Mlle. Pogany. Then, from the side, one notices how it resembles a big wave about to topple -- the ocean over which the deity ruled. And finally, from the front, closer in, the deep pits and bosses in the surface suggest a rock carved at random by the swilling of that sea. It is a work of astonishing power and distinction...
Before 1986, students were not told their lottery numbers, and that change sparked attempts to outwit the system and calls to return to the old method or a random lottery...
...system. Virtually the same percentage of students received their first choice house as last year--76.5 percent--and the same number of houses were filled in each round as last year--five in round one, one in round two, two in round three, and four in the random round...
...prosperous New York businessman named Joe Capote, who turned out to be a kindly stepfather.) Capote wangled a job at The New Yorker, and at night wrote and overwrote fevered, delicate, swamp-baroque stories that were skewed images of Monroeville. On the strength of one story in Mademoiselle, Random House signed the new phenom to a book contract...
Peter Boyer's version of the same period, Who Killed CBS? (Random House, $18.95), is a more balanced and skillfully written account. Boyer, who spent ten months as media critic for the CBS Morning News in 1985, is now TV reporter for the New York Times. One subject on which he is better, oddly, is Ed Joyce. Boyer lucidly describes the missteps that caused Joyce to fall into disfavor with his staff. Soon after becoming news president, for instance, Joyce tried unsuccessfully to move Sandy Socolow, the respected former executive producer of the CBS Evening News, from the London bureau...