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...criteria for selection is based on each House's class and sex balances, with emphasis on seniority, Spence said. Within those categories, selection is completely random, she added...
...specific location in the precisely designed grid, it can be "addressed" almost instantly: information can be read from any doughnut by means of a third wire passing through each core. These fragile and expensive core memories are now being replaced by semiconductor memories on chips. In addition to such "random access" memories, as they are called, computers have auxiliary memories in the form of magnetic tape or discs. These have the advantage of large capacity and low cost, and are used to store information in bulk...
Nothing weighty emerges from these characters' random encounters. What the film does produce is an unflattering portrait of Bob Dylan's ego. Almost all the characters - including the performers he elbows off-screen in the musical numbers - treat the hero with dumb-struck reverence. Grateful Indians and blacks gleefully accept his political support. Worse still, Dylan fills Renaldo and Clara with self-deifying Christ images. At least we are spared a crucifixion scene...
...another. In the majority of cases so far reported, the flu has been relatively mild with many patients recovering in three or four days. At the service academies, the cadets and middies, thanks to their generally topnotch condition, suffered lighter attacks and were making quicker recoveries than would a random sample of average citizens...
Cunningham's methods of chance and random juxtaposition culminate in those stage presentations designated "Events," which his company has performed periodically since 1964. In an Event, Cunningham combines a series of discrete sequences from previously-choreographed dances to form a continuous whole, with one sequence often beginning before another has ended. The music and costumes are seldom those used with the original dances, and although the program lists the works from which the sequences are extracted it is rarely possible to tell what is being performed when...