Word: randomize
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...chief concern for the organizers and the authorities alike was drugs. Festival officials warned bands not to bring illicit substances, threatening--emptily, it turned out--to search the musicians thoroughly at the airport and subject them to random urinalysis. The bands' playlists also received a cavity probe. Before the festival opened, each band was asked to send a representative to what was described as an "extremely important meeting." There organizers announced that six songs had been struck by local government sponsors for "unhealthy" lyrics. The band originally scheduled to go on second, Masturbation (whose singer has a penchant for removing...
...chief concern for organizers and authorities alike is drugs. The festival's slogan, printed on the T shirts worn by staff, reads "Music Is a Natural High." The organizers have warned bands not to bring illicit substances, threatening to search them thoroughly at the airport and subject them to random urinalysis. The bands' playlists also receive a cavity probe. In the early morning hours of the first day of the festival, each act is asked to send a representative for what is described as an "extremely important meeting." There, the organizers announce that six songs?including five by rap-metal...
...walls are a washed-out olive green, and Tang's jewel-toned works lean against furniture and walls with a deceptive casualness?precisely where they will be noticed most. In contrast, Guo Haiping's studio in the city center is haphazardly filled with his signature finger-painted monochromes and random objects?a toilet hangs on the entrance room wall, covered from top to bottom with Guo's red fingerprints...
...seem to form a span of history." Iain Banks thinks Dead Air slots into the second category, which examines the state of the world after the attacks. The story, about radio DJ Ken and his affair with a gangster's wife, begins with guests at a party merrily throwing random objects from the roof of a tall building. (Images of falling pervade the book.) Then comes the news from New York. Ken starts filling his radio airtime with political diatribes, on topics ranging from the Bush presidency to the Middle East. "Ken's arguments, although caricatured, crystallize today's issues...
...Club’s special feature is its Tuesday open mike sessions, to which regularly featured artists and green high schoolers alike regularly sign up, according to Smith. Names can be put down beginning at 6:30 p.m., and the order is then drawn at random...