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...girl skipping rope (under the subtheme "childhood"). Or a Bauhaus-inspired Marcel Breuer dining-room set in front of the energetic Wassily Kandinsky painting Auf Weiss II (1923)?subtheme: "abstract city." You can hear the Music of Changes by experimental composer John Cage in the space dedicated to "random...
...critics can't always agree how to classify it. "I remember everyone said, 'Oh, she sounds like Björk,'" Goldfrapp recalls, just a little caustically. "Now Björk isn't on everyone's radar as much as, say, Kylie is right now. It's just pretty random, whatever is around." Like any good diva, Goldfrapp exudes an air of being above all the fuss, even while clearly luxuriating in it. "I think I did 175 interviews in four weeks," says the weary songstress. And does she read them? Certainly not. "You spend all day f___ing talking about...
While the Freshman Dean’s Office receives the rooming forms, the Admissions Office puts the names of all the students who have accepted Harvard’s offer into a computer that performs a random sort. That sort is then used to divide the class into three “Yards” of 540 to 580 students: Crimson, Ivy, and Elm. A set of dorms comprises each “yard,” which is overseen by one of the three assistant deans of freshman...
...asserted that it might have taken longer. What they should not be asserting is the idea of God's having set the rules for evolution and then stepped back. And even less so, the model held by much of the scientific academy: of evolution as the result of a random process of mutation and selection...
...Needs a Designer? Nonsense, says biologists. It's easy to imagine how a random mutation might have produced a path of light-sensitive cells that helped a primitive creature tell day from night. You can also imagine how another mutation might have bent this patch of cells into a concave shape that could detect the direction a light or shadow was coming from-helping creatures with the mutation stay clear of predators. Simple structures that enable an organism to do one thing-follow the light-can easily get co-opted for a different and more complex function, like sight...