Word: randomizes
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...Finally, many CDSs insured products ill-suited for insurance. Insurance works best when a disaster is random, infrequent, and independent from other disasters. This is not the case for mortgage-backed securities. In the housing market, prices are dependent on the surrounding area. A firm can attempt to mitigate this problem by slicing up mortgages and repackaging them in complex financial instruments like collaterized debt obligations, but the risk persists. If enough houses drop in value, others will follow, and this domino effect is the current housing crisis...
...theme for the seemingly random theatrical assault that follows, it a bit too, well, all-purpose. But it serves. The play was inspired by the paintings of Norman Rockwell and the work of the avant-garde installation artist Jason Rhoades, and it's a witty, sometimes mystifying, often riveting mishmash of classic Americana and anarchic performance art. It opens with a recording of Bing Crosby singing "Dear Hearts and Gentle People," then slides into a series of Rockwellian scenes: a Thanksgiving dinner; a high school couple on a first date, accompanied by a recorded 1950s lesson in dating etiquette...
...object that you try to figure out how to do something with it, how to manipulate it.”The installation is a multi-elemental piece that engages sight, sound, mind, and physical being. Computer and video screens flank a cluster of white, rectangular bars staggered by random height. Sounds sweep through the open space as the installation loops through three movements. The first sets a neutral and abstract tone; the second—which projects text from New York Times headlines onto the bars as processed voices recite news feeds into the space—emphasizes the fact...
...also going to list a bunch of random programs and unrelated initiatives and spout empty words about our commitments to fill up space. As you may have noticed by now, this message could have ended two paragraphs...
...link to Shaq’s Twitter. I deleted it. Much as I detest Twitter, I have almost as little interest in basketball. But when I received the link again, I reluctantly clicked on it. The description in his bio said, “Very quotatious, I perform random acts of Shaqness” and his most recent Tweet assured readers, “u guys aren’t lil people, we r all from da same planet, twitteronia.” Huh? This couldn’t be the real Shaq. But I was intrigued. On February...