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Rando describes the "hell" of a crew race in a very matter of fact way: "It's sort of a blur of lactic acid and adrenaline. You start out very frantically...build up close to maximum lactic acid build-up and try to hold," Rando says...
...deed, what is clear is that the very institutions they despise--the FBI, the ATF--were able to mobilize their forces with astonishing efficiency. The investigation depended, certainly, on serendipity, but it also proceeded with teamwork and precision When news of the blast came, disbelief turned rapidly into a blur of activity. Pentagon aides rushed to telephones to issue instructions. One of the first orders, State Department and Pentagon officials tell Time, was to begin immediately monitoring the passports presented by passengers wishing to travel overseas from airline terminals at Oklahoma City's airport. The FBI did not want...
...first year is a blur, of course, and Mike continues to identify every third first-year in the Yard by name. We start to call him "god" because he knows so much about us: all our names, our roommates, our neighbors, our high schools and home towns. There's something comforting in that...
Considering the plot limitations, good characterizing details should have been one of the strengths of Life After God. But too many of the characters blur together. The child in "Little Creatures" lies animals and Count Chocula. The father is vaguely dissatisfied. This is really all we know by the end of the story...
...rest of the game was a blur of women in white jerseys being futilely chased by women in blue. Substitutions came in and out for both squads, but that didn't stop Harvard's score from approaching infinity...