Word: arcing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Minutewoman didn't have anyone big enough to guard her well, so once the Crimson settled into a set offense, she was open twice in the scoring arc. Over the rest of the game, she stuck to defense, helping Harvard edge...
Davidson had trouble locating his character within the dialogue. He knew what John said, but he did not always know why, leaving the character without an arc. The concertina of pride and panic that Mamet composes for John was stripped of its subtleties. Instead, in each line, he strummed the same self-satisfied note...
Frivolities like these further fragment the effect of the whole. In general, there's no real sense of tension or heartbreak in this production. It's there in bits and pieces, but these just doesn't fuse into the one continuously rising dramatic arc of emotion that the music so darkly promises. In the end, you feel you've just seen a series of well-sung pieces--not the complete work of art we think of as great opera...
This is the ultimate nightmare scenario. The Pharaohs built their pyramids, the Emperors built Rome, and Napoleon built his Arc de Triomphe--all, at least in part, to make the permanence of stone compensate for the impermanence of the flesh. But big buildings and big tombs would be a poor second choice if the flesh could be made to go on forever. Now, it appears...
...again showed why they are undefeated in the Ivy League. With its win over Harvard last night, Princeton (20-3,10-0 Ivy) notched its 20th victory of the season. The Tigers shot 47 percent from the field, 85 percent from the line and 35 percent from behind the arc. However, this is only half the story...