Word: randomly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very fine (and happily played very loud) is precisely the intense visual experience one gets from concerts. Two facts: the best seats at concerts are not the ones besieged by the best sound-they're the ones which afford the freest view, permitting the eye to wander at random; and great groups have great visual styles. This is all obvious, but it dictates how one makes rock and roll movies. In particular it points to a desperate need for establishing the whole group in long shot. Beyond that, the cutting must always keep in mind the relation of any given...
...Random Trashing...
...After the Common rally has ended, the November Action Committee (NAC) plans to march to the Cambridge draft board at City Hall to protest the trial of Bobby Seale. "It should be disciplined, and we don't want random trashing on the way," a NAC leader said last night. "It will probably be a pretty militant demonstration, but whether there is violence will depend on how the police respond," he said...
...marked CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY. The cards, arranged face down, each bore the name of one of the district's ten active judges. After freeing the top card with a letter opener, the clerk found before him the name of the trial judge whom he had just selected at random: Julius J. Hoffman...
...Black English" is not an illiterate language, as many think, but remarkably rich in nuances. According to Toni Morrison, an editor at Random House, "many of these poets are turning to the grammar, the punctuation, the language through which subculture blacks in particular have resisted total Westernization. Black dialect-if you want to call it that-is probably more subtle and sophisticated than standard white English." In standard English, she says, "there are only two present tenses-I work, I am working. In English as spoken in white Appalachia, there are three -I work, I am working...