Word: randomly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...play focuses around the drafting of Conrad Birdie, a teen-age rock star. Rosie, however, comes up with a way to turn the loss of her boss's only client into a financial bonanza--pick a Birdie fan at random for Conrad to kiss on the Ed Sullivan Show after singing his new song, "One Last Kiss." Rosie also wants Albert (xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx), her boss, to quit songwriting, break away from his protective mother, and become an English teacher. Her dreams all come to pass by the final curtain call...
However they explain the recent cooling, there are many observers who are not convinced that it is part of a long-term trend. Two Government experts, Donald Oilman and J. Murray Mitchell Jr., argue that it may only be a random fluctuation, rather than part of any fixed cycle. In fact until a few years ago, many scientists suspected that the earth would heat up, largely because of mankind's increasing output of carbon dioxide. A byproduct of fossil-fuel burning, the gas lets sunlight pass down through the atmosphere but prevents the escape of infra-red heat waves...
...showered him with carnations during his get-acquainted meeting with Mexican President Luis Echeverria Alvarez, Ford flew to Oklahoma, which gave Richard Nixon 75% of its vote in 1972. Ford arrived in Oklahoma City at the same time that the Republican-oriented Daily Oklahoman published the results of a random survey of 2,900 voters, showing Republican Senator Henry Bellmon trailing Democratic Challenger Ed Edmondson by 13 points and Republican Gubernatorial Nominee James Inhofe lagging behind Democrat David Boren by 49 points...
...eight out of ten times; on the other two rolls he declined to pick a number. The odds against his performing that feat by chance, Targ and Puthoff calculated, were about a million to one. Geller was also reported to have sketched remarkably accurate versions of drawings picked at random by researchers hidden in another room. Those claims, printed in Nature, did seem to make a case for extrasensory perception...
Chance-the random drip, the unsought image-bulked large as an issue among New York painters then. Liberman built chance into his work in a typically calculated way. He planned his accidents. Two early pictures in the show were done by tossing poker chips onto a canvas, marking where they fell and painting in the dots. The circles vibrate optically; the whole performance suggests a gambler's desinvolture, but preserved, fixed, a gesture trapped under glass. This way of stabilizing chance gives Liberman's early work its unique flavor, both improvised and severe enough to verge...