Word: chaotically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...steeply angled sand pile to slide, so may a small evolutionary advance that gives one species a temporary advantage over another be enough to bring down an entire ecosystem. "These patterns of speciations and extinctions, avalanching across ecosystems and time," warns Kauffman, are to be found in every chaotic system - human and biological. "We are all part of the same pageant," as he puts it. Thus, even in this technological age, we may have more in common than we care to believe with the weird - and ultimately doomed - wonders that radiated so hopefully out of the Cambrian explosion...
...apparent in all the pieces on display at the Fogg. Traces of solder mark every metal juncture on these pieces--even in the monumentally minimalistic "5 1/2" (1956). Stung by several critics' refusal to consider pieces created by industrial welding as art, Smith persistently defended his technique. The fancifully chaotic composition of "Bird" (1957) further evokes the spirit of an artist unwilling to bow to convention...
...Supervillain: He may, as usual, have a superweapon trained on a Western capital, but Alec Trevelyan (Sean Bean), a freelance mastermind operating in today's chaotic Russia, has a dreary back story explaining how he went wrong instead of truly evil elan. Big mistake: we don't want motivation in a Bond nemesis; we want psychosis on a joyous, cosmic scale. Gert Frobe, you are missed...
...government agencies, museums, parks and laboratories to a halt. "Essential" workers--including national-security, safety and communications personnel--were ordered to stay on the job during the crisis. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin juggled the federal books and tapped two civil service retirement funds in order to avert a potentially chaotic default on government obligations...
...staffer said yesterday that things will be "really chaotic" for a while...