Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...starting gun fires at noon, cheers break the tension-filled air, and a slow, thick mass of human lava flows down the Hopkinton road towards Boston. For the next several hours all that matters is your body, the distance and the time...
...when seen in the context of Lem's body of work, is that it purports to have a solution. In the book's denouement, John unravels the mystery and at last everything becomes understandable. This may be routine for a detective story, but for Lem it is a radical break from his tradition of leaving stories open-ended...
Though every plot point is established roughly three times, Herzfeld's script is riddled with holes. He asks us to believe that Drew would record a make-or-break audition song in a coin-operated "Record-O-Graph" booth, without musical accompaniment, just because his cassette machine was broken. Later the hero lands a star gig at a disco by sheer happenstance...
Then came the fireworks. Predun found sharpshooter Mike Faught in the slot and Faught laid a perfect feed into the stick of Ward, who faked high and dropped the ball past Brown goalie Charlie Meister. Seven of the ten Harvard players were involved in the extraordinary fast-break...
...only player not wearing a Tiger visor to break 80 was the Crimson's Chip Raffi, the seventh and last man to tee off for the linksters. Raffi finished third in the tournament with 79, three strokes behind medalist Steve Laughlin. Laughlin, a blue-chip freshman who was recruited by Harvard, went to Princeton on an ROTC scholarship. He was only one of five freshmen who played for the Tigers...