Word: rigidities
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...inlaid pavement of a piazza. The drops, filming the surface with water splashes, broke up the stone pattern, returning it briefly to chaos and instability. Could this breakup not be given an equivalent as painting? It could; and that sense of disturbed equilibrium within what looks like a rigid serial structure was to be the essential "subject" of Riley's work from then...
...HISTORY Department's recent decision to replace the senior general examination in comparative history, abolish the pre-1600 requirement, and liberalize the department's rigid distribution requirements, is a welcome step in the right direction. It could signal a change in the department's prior position, which has been characterized by inflexibility and refusals to reform...
...Unlike Faisal, Fahd has a weakness for certain Western luxuries; he drew criticism from conservative Saudis when he spent five months vacationing in Europe last year, staying there even through the holy month of Ramadan. Still, he is unlikely to loosen up the country's rigid Islamic ways abruptly...
...that," shrugs the Spaniard. "But he sits up and talks." That Madrid joke about ailing Generalissimo Francisco Franco, 82, would be merely crude were it not for the fact that it reflects a deep-rooted bitterness. After 35 years of living under a dictatorial regime notable mostly for its rigid stability, many Spaniards these days are worried about both the erratic course of the Franco regime and el Caudillo 's ability to run the country...
This line is seriously eroding Simon's influence in Congress. A year ago, when he was the nation's energy czar, even liberal Democrats viewed him as a pragmatic problem solver. Now many consider him a rigid conservative ideologue...