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Although a computer does assign random numbers to each housing group or bloc, housing officials complete the process by actually sorting the rooming cards into piles, one for each house, officials said...
Dingman said Thursday housing officials conduct the assignment process by hand after a computer punches each group's card with a random number...
...band finally slips into "Road Runner"; Rotten doesn't remember that one either. With some help from drummer Paul Cook, he latches onto some random lyrics--the Stop and Shop, the modern world, and the refrain about the radio. He closes it off with "Do we know any other fuckin' songs?" ending one of the priceless moments in recording history...
Magritte's turning point was 1927, when he went to live in Paris. There, immersed in the surrealist movement, he was no longer a provincial spectator. And he quickly realized where his contribution to it might lie: not in the exploitation of chance and random effects, like Masson or Ernst, still less in exoticism and neurosis, like Dali, but in hallucinatory ordinariness. One of the obsessions of surrealism was the way inexplicable events intruded into everyday life. With his dry, matter-of-fact technique, Magritte painted things so ordinary that they might have come from a phrase book...
...intermittently. By Thursday, a holiday commemorating the birth of the Prophet Muhammad, the streets of Tehran were free of gun-toting troublemakers. But only until the sun went down. After dark, the sounds of gunfire returned as unidentified rebels fired on various government and private buildings, and sometimes at random, in direct defiance of Khomeini's orders against attacks on people or property...