Word: randomly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...formed alliances with several unions, though most of organized labor remains antiCommunist. Some radicals are now in the leadership of unions representing firemen and telephone and power-plant workers. A number of strikes in 1974 and early 1975 grew violent, and industrial sabotage became a nagging problem. So did random explosions at the Puerto Rican offices of mainland-based enterprises...
...RUSSELL HOBAN 211 pages. Random House...
Hunter Thompson, at his Colorado ranch, sipped Wild Turkey and predicted more random violence for the seventies. On one level, Thompson said, we're totally doomed--"but I think there's a perversity in people that I kind of like and have great faith in." Salisbury must have listened patiently and seriously. He writes...
...appears to be little doubt that the new board will favor retention. Indeed some speculated that the representatives-elect were responsible for the old board's shift on the question of student choice. In straw votes on January 14 CHUL indicated that it favored recommending that a system of random student assignments at the end of freshman year be used for one to three years. But a week later, in its final meeting, the 1975 CHUL turned a quick about-face, recommending to Rosovsky that any future assignment system allow student choice. Yet betraying some lingering uncertainty CHUL decided...
Taking off from tunes by Jelly Roll Morton, "Eight Jelly Rolls" (1971) buries its structure and, true to Tharp's dictum, unearths random scatter. Six female dancers tease the music's rhythm, gliding over and diving under the beat, tearing through its even sounding. At first lost in inward spirals of movement, the six cohere as a group, parody a nightclub act and, later, back Tharp's solo disheveling. Shivers running down their spines, the dancers seem to shed a second skin, as if leaving shreds of themselves behind...