Word: complex
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Sonny Rollins himself. An imposing figure clad in black (with the exception of his red Converse sneakers), Rollins stalked the stage throughout the performance, pouncing out toward the audience at one moment, bouncing back toward his drummer at the next. His improvisations combined the high- and low-brow, interweaving complex patterns and quotes from pop tunes. Contacting the muse seemingly at will, Rollins would abstain from soloing for one song, then follow with a 10-minute-plus tour-de-force in the following tune. His freewheeling rendition of "They Say It's Wonderful" (from Annie Get Your Gun) drained...
...think, in which the lefties and righties of talk radio and television tend to bray and hoot. Bill Clinton instinctively grasps the truth of the new American sympathies. One thinker who understands them perfectly is Alan Wolfe, a sociologist who has done admirable research in the cross-grained, complex American attitudes toward gay rights, abortion and other signature issues of the millennium...
...casualty list is growing because the role of CEO is getting ever more difficult. Companies are larger, and technology is accelerating product cycles, so any mistake is likely to be huge. "The situation has become much more complex," says management consultant Ram Charan. "The speed of change is faster. Wall Street is demanding more and reacting quickly when things don't go right. That's creating tremendous pressure...
...things now stand. In the absence of new clinical trials, the researchers who reported in the British Medical Journal used complex mathematical analyses of four previous studies to conclude that statins can reduce the risk of suffering a heart attack even in men and women with normal cholesterol levels and no signs of heart disease. Since this population is fairly healthy, however, doctors might need to treat 250 or more people to save a single life. A bargain for the one whose life is spared, but not so great for the majority, who would not only bear the expense...
...playing jazz in France; finally his hometown is giving him his due. But instead of a joyous reunion, Sonny encounters a multigenerational feud, which Marshall unfolds by moving deftly between present and past. If her narrative occasionally swerves into Young Adult territory, it's not at the sacrifice of complex characters or of her longstanding themes: the fundamental human desire to belong--to a place or a people--and the fratricidal discord between American-born and West Indian blacks...