While fun for one night of random encounters, Urumqi had little else to offer.
Progress depended almost entirely on random encounters in the city between American officials and Iraqi bureaucrats.
This was a choreography of real life, an orchestration of random encounters.
The tension leaks, while Pearce roves around the dusty wasteland having these unsettling, but random encounters.
What about it, other than its random encounters, makes everyone so uncomfortable?
Many of his best pictures seem to flow effortlessly out of random encounters.
They are effectively cutting themselves off from the random encounters in public spaces that used to invigorate city living.
The design encourages "random encounters," which Ek once read was Steve Jobs's plan in laying out Pixar's offices.
Through the holes in his 'unreliable' memory flood accounts of random encounters in pubs or eventless jaunts in his Austin 1100, banal observations dressed up as insight.
The story is a record of his random encounters with teachers, students, street people and television personalities, all eagerly spouting their theories.
"I never sign on game day," he would say, a charming way to be remembered by people who had random encounters with him.
