Word: randomization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...CONTRAST to such special effects, several artists create a physical obstacle course for subway patrons. David Phillips collects granite boulders and deposits them at random on the plaza at Porter Square. (Harvard's own) Dmitri Hadzi amasses sculptures composed of objects--mostly fragments of building materials--found in the Cambridge area...
...tests will be administered to two athletes selected at random from each team in every game played and to any athlete whose performance seems unusually good. In individual events, the first four finishers will be tested, as will two or three competitors chosen at random. Within an hour after the event, the athlete will be sent to a testing site where at least 50 milliliters (less than 2 oz.) of urine will be collected. The sample will be sent to the laboratory in two bottles: one will be stored in a sealed box in a refrigerator; the other specimen will...
...Western translations of his basic prerevolutionary teachings are of doubtful authenticity or accuracy. In particular, a howlingly funny French translation of some of his remarks?dealing with, among other things, the proper attitude of Muslims toward the meat of a camel that has been sodomized?is composed of random pronouncements from a thick book, deliberately excerpted out of context to make the Ayatullah look ridiculous...
...Monville - all 35 inches of him - rallies a flagging team and pushes them on toward the pennant. There are many sources to check sports stats, but for the even woollier recreation of rock 'n' roll, the research pickings have been slim. The Rolling Stone Record Guide (Random House/Rolling Stone Press; $19.95 hard cover, $8.95 in paper) is a lively start to ward righting this situation. No more trips to the record store to consult the catalogues. The Guide contains enough spirited information to begin reckoning that exact margin...
...RUSSIAN EMPIRE: A PORTRAIT IN PHOTOGRAPHS by Chloe Obolensky; Random House; 345 pages...