Word: blur
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once past Mass Ave and into the Yard, there was no sweat. Widener quickly became a blur, and as I'd cut down the path between Sever and Emerson toward the Fogg--which I was in most of the time--I'd wonder why everyone thinks that good weather gives them a license to walk around with half of their clothes...
...elbow and moved to one side of the room. There for the first time that day the blur focused and he saw a young girl, beautiful and sad. She didn't belong there...
...embarassment of riches offered by the Magic Movies series threatens to overwhelm the viewer at times. A dozen shorts in quick succession results in so many visual images that they tend to blur together by the end of the show. An intermission which breaks the program into two halves helps somewhat and the atmosphere at the Off-the-Wall theater (which is also a coffee house and photo gallery) is low-keyed and convivial. Until short subjects become a regular part of movie theater programming, Off-the-Wall's approach is the most rewarding, if exhausting, way to see these...
...case in most of his other novels, Garcia Márquez offers very lit tle chronological plotting. The Autumn of the Patriarch actually begins at the end of the general's life and works back ward and laterally through a national history that somewhat resembles the blur of civil wars and chaos in the au thor's own Colombia. Garcia Márquez writes with what could be called a stream-of-consciousness technique, but the result is much more like a whirl pool. Events, characters and dialogue are all sucked down into a powerful nar rative vortex...
PRINCETON, N.J.--Color the day orange for the Harvard soccer team. Saturday's game against Princeton started out on an orange tone at picturesque tree-lined Poe Field; and it ended in a blur of Princeton's orange-colored balls finding their way into the Crimson net. The final tally: Orange 3, Crimson...