Word: serials
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...saga sometimes sounds like a comic book or a children's TV serial, magnified a thousand times over, it is no accident. Lucas grew up on both. His father George Sr., who owned a prosperous stationery store in Modesto, was a rigorous man who tried to teach his son and three daughters the old-fashioned virtues: early to bed, early to rise; be true to yourself; work hard, be frugal. His father was convinced that the son paid no attention. "He never listened to me," says George Sr. "He was his mother's pet. If he wanted...
...were secreted in trailer trucks with dummy fuel tanks, then driven from Nicaragua through Honduras to El Salvador. Some of those runs were detected. In 1981 the Reagan Administration displayed photographs of such a truck containing a cache of U.S.-made M-16 rifles in its false bottom. The serial numbers on some of the rifles showed that the weapons had been left behind by U.S. forces in Viet...
Nevertheless, Time and the Conways offers top-notch drama even if the concept of serial time gets lost in the translation from page to stage. Though the second act appears to be our own vision rather than Kay's, the play still holds together beautifully. It also surpasses most plays in its offhand observations offering true insight that one can only marvel at the fact that the current production by the Huntington Theatre Company is the first major staging of the play in 45 years...
...several thousand [Cuban and East bloc] military advisers in Nicaragua. And 40,000 Cuban troops in Angola and Ethiopia. Never mind that there are well over 1 00,000 Soviet combatants attempting to impose a Communist regime on the unwilling people of Afghanistan. Never mind that U.S. rifles whose serial numbers identify them as equipment left behind by our troops in Viet Nam have been intercepted en route to insurgents in El Salvador. Those facts seem to be discarded...
...problems, as he demonstrates through equations, turn out to be the less universal, and more pedestrian, difficulties of "serial correlation"--"not Wheaties," he puns, and "heteroscedasticity...