Word: randomly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Maurier), wore spotless gray kid gloves and sat on an empty beer crate as his glider took him into battle. Nor does Ryan fail to mention the name of the beer (Worthington)-just as he identifies the typewriter (Olivetti) being tapped by a then U.P. correspondent named Walter Cronkite. Random, trivial, even compulsive, Ryan's facts eventually justify themselves as a fragmented tableau of that most fragmented experience: war. Here are just a few of the details of just one air drop, seen like a close-up of a Flemish tapestry: A paratrooper lands on a partridge and carries...
THERE are lessons to be gained from this film. That the city is a barbaric place, that we are all hostage to a population of capricious adventurists, and that the random slaying of muggers by a "vigilante" will drastically reduce the rate of assaults (in this case, from over 900, to 470 a week). And this movie is tremendously powerful, for it clumsily taps a vein of paranoia in its audience so that its audience accepts those reactionary premises and explodes with applause every time Paul fires...
Silent Guns. Once it would have been swiftly punctured by the party's right wing, which was outraged when Rockefeller refused to support Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential race. This time there were a few random shots but no fusillade. The balloon stayed afloat, and so did Rockefeller's chances. A few conservative diehards grumbled, but the big guns were relatively silent. Texas Senator John Tower said that Rockefeller would be O.K., though not his first choice. Senator Goldwater doubted that Rockefeller would go over with the G.O.P. rank and file, but would not oppose...
...last as long as 24 months and cost up to $50,000. It usually begins with a thorough search through women's personnel records for patterns of discrimination in such areas as salary and lines of advancement, and continues through interviews with top executives, middle managers and a random sample of female employees. Then Boyle, Kirkman or one of the firm's five consultants (all women) present recommendations to top management. One startling example of bias that they turned up: Kirkman, reviewing the records of 300 women employed by a major oil company, found that all had supposedly...
...research, elegantly computerized, was aimed at testing the ability of rodents to anticipate events (E.S.P.) or to effect physical changes by sheer will power (psychokinesis). He had electrodes implanted in the brains of rats in a zone where stimulation gave the animals intense pleasure. The stimuli were delivered at random intervals by a computer that in turn was keyed to the decay of atoms in a sample of radioactive strontium 90. Without any outside influence, the system would stimulate the rats' pleasure zones 50% of the time. If the rats could anticipate the computer by E.S.P. or influence...