Word: randomly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Disparate Rulings. That local-standard rule could conceivably turn into a nightmare for publishers, film makers and other distributors of mass-circulation material. Robert Bernstein, head of Random House, sees the decision as "a call to arms to every crazy vigilante group in this country." Michigan Attorney General Frank Kelley warns, "This really sets us back in the dark ages. Now prosecuting attorneys in every county and state will be grandstanding, and every jury in every little community will have a crack at each new book, play and movie...
...MICHAEL KORDA 242 pages. Random House...
...firm of Environetics to recheck the projections, draw floor plans, and figure out where every department should be located in relation to every other department. The result was a drawing that Environetics President Larry Lerner calls "a building profile"-a jagged shape that looks like a child's random construction with wooden blocks of varying sizes. When this interior scheme was shown to the building's architect, Bruce Graham of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, he gasped: "How do you expect me to design around that...
Rosi's movie is a semi-documentary investigation of that crash, as dramatically formless as a pile of researcher's note cards shuffled and dealt out at random, leaving the viewer to reach whatever conclusion he pleases about the cause of Mattel's ugly demise. This formlessness dictates a film less suspenseful and, in the end, less satisfying than it might have been. It never quite pierces the surface to reach the dramatic possibilities we know to be buried in the dark depths below...
...postal system that has survived silently for centuries. But Stencil, Maas and Slothrop can never confirm their conspiracies, and what is more, they cannot tell which is worse--a conspiracy or the possibility that there is no force at all behind the pattern, that it is an accident, a random ordering...