Word: patterns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...creative side of the company to wither while they focused their attention on real estate development, which seemed a surer bet. This outraged the largest individual stockholder, the late Roy Disney's son, also named Roy, who owned 3% of the company. "I remember thinking that if that pattern went on much longer, the company would become a museum in honor of Walt," says Roy, now 58. "Movies were the fountainhead of ideas, the impetus for all the rest. Without Fantasia and Snow White, Disneyland couldn't have been built." Yet Disney's management rejected Roy's advice and privately...
...found in the models of the crystal ("the self-organizing system") and the flame ("order out of noise"), which Calvino steals from a debate between Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky on the philosophy of science. Under the emblem of the crystal, language is a privileged place where a geometric pattern of meaning may grow despite surrounding disorder. Calvino names Wallace Stevens as a poet of the crystal. Under the emblem of the flame, on the other hand, language unifies disorder by consuming it. William S. Burroughs might be a partisan of the flame...
Exchanges about Jackson's experience follow a predictable enough pattern. Now, according to this ritual, it is time for someone to argue that the real racist would spare Jackson's record the scrutiny it would receive were he white. This might trump Kilson's trump, countering his slander with another slander...
...deeply absorbing eclectic influences ranging from Italian hill towns to science-fiction movies, but also in rarely letting one idea overwhelm the rest. And his sensible, good old Americanism, counterbalances his spacier side. On old Route 66 at Albuquerque's southwest edge is the Beach, a Navajo-blanket-pattern ed, neon- emblazoned apartment complex that, despite the glitz, has a strong sense of urbanity, a function of the labyrinth of outdoor stairways and corridors...
Weld contended that there appeared to be a pattern of Meese in effect selling the services of his office. Even if Independent Counsel McKay decides not to indict him, Weld advised Meese, "the best-case scenario is, you are going to get a report from McKay that knocks your block...