Word: break-through
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Carswell made another big break-through in the indoor season, when he ran a school-record 8:01.11 at the Terrier Classic on Jan. 27. The time, 16 seconds shorter than his previous best, automatically qualified him for the NCAAs in the 3,000 meter...
...then the counter-reaction created an environment of debate that forced the issue of unwed parents into the social arena. Of course there had been unwed mothers before Murphy Brown, but until then the networks had resisted depicting them as leading figures. The case of Murphy Brown was a break-through because the television stations decided to stop fighting against changing society and to reflect it accurately instead...
After all this visual and aural input, the final installation of the series, "The Greeting," is a break-through exploration of the power of a single, wordless gesture. In this video, presented simply in an empty room on a conventional screen, two women are approached by a third who embraces one of the women and whispers something in her ear. A few seconds of film is stretched to twenty times its original length, and every subtle, lovely element of the total motion is exposed to attention our impatient eyes would typically be unable to observe. The piece is simple, monumental...
...with all nascent powers, there are a few gaps, a few ingredients that need to be added for the break-through season to happen...
Junior year represented a break-through. Although we ended the season with a very respectable 19-4 record, we weren't just winning, we were dominating. We destroyed lesser teams like Reading and Stoneham when they came to Wenner Field House. We routinely beat teams by more than 15 points on the road...