Word: randomization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...showered him with carnations during his get-acquainted meeting with Mexican President Luis Echeverria Alvarez, Ford flew to Oklahoma, which gave Richard Nixon 75% of its vote in 1972. Ford arrived in Oklahoma City at the same time that the Republican-oriented Daily Oklahoman published the results of a random survey of 2,900 voters, showing Republican Senator Henry Bellmon trailing Democratic Challenger Ed Edmondson by 13 points and Republican Gubernatorial Nominee James Inhofe lagging behind Democrat David Boren by 49 points...
Chance-the random drip, the unsought image-bulked large as an issue among New York painters then. Liberman built chance into his work in a typically calculated way. He planned his accidents. Two early pictures in the show were done by tossing poker chips onto a canvas, marking where they fell and painting in the dots. The circles vibrate optically; the whole performance suggests a gambler's desinvolture, but preserved, fixed, a gesture trapped under glass. This way of stabilizing chance gives Liberman's early work its unique flavor, both improvised and severe enough to verge...
...Crimson selected students for the sample from a computer-generated list of random dormitory telephone numbers, and conducted the interviews in the late afternoons and evenings last week...
MYRON by GOREVIDAL 244 pages. Random House...
...ISHMAEL REED 177 pages. Random House...