Word: randomly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world pressed in. There was nothing around me. No towns, no houses, no power lines--nothing blocked out the desert and sky but the edge of the road, the broken glass in the run-offs. It wasn't the American Dream, but it was an acceptable substitute: the random and the strange. Driving down 70 could not fit anymore into my easy categories--the images flowing past my windshield demanded my attention. The television mode with its comforting torpor collapsed in the face of scenes no screen could capture...
...BOER WAR by Thomas Pakenham; Random House; 718 pages...
Seven hundred and fifty National Guardsmen, 200 highway patrolmen, 175 city policemen, tanks, and two helicopters guarded the funeral procession. The governor declared a state of emergency and issued an unlimited search warrant allowing officers to search at random and arrest anyone carrying a weapon...
...EDGE OF THE CLIFF by V.S. Pritchett Random House; 179 pages...
...FAMILY ROMANCE by Michael Korda Random House; 498 pages; $15 ''Always go to the best hotel and eat at the best restaurants-and sooner or later someone will appear who will give you money.'' -Alexander Korda