Word: breathlessness
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...journey to the Middle Kingdom is the new Qinghai-Tibet railway, making it possible to go from the Chinese capital through to Lhasa. In places, like the Danggula Mountain pass (elevation: 5,072 m), you'll be traveling at altitudes used by commuter jets. If that leaves you breathless, don't worry - compartments are oxygenated, and each passenger has their own oxygen mask. The one-way trip from Beijing takes 48 hours. See www.chinatibettrain.com
This punchy, almost breathless cadence is seductively accessible to the balletomane and casual observer alike. Sharp adroitly collapses the distance between performer and spectator, suggesting that we can all relate to the pas de deux’s pursuit of perfect synchrony between individuals...
...world affairs. However contemporary Europe, or at least the parts of it that belong to the EU and NATO, is usually viewed only in terms of its foreign policy. In America, coverage of European domestic politics and issues is usually limited to, alternately, cheap caricatures of EU bureaucratization or breathless accounts of what America might someday resemble if only people would stop voting for Republicans, driving SUVs, and shopping at Wal-Mart...
CORNELL STUDENTS WILL no longer have easy access to copyrighted reading material online, after the American Association of Publishers threatened suit. But the Sun muddles the issue with this breathless lede: Most students would be shocked to know that their professor had broken the law, and even more surprised to find out that they had witnessed it. But as unlikely as that situation seems, it happened on a daily basis last year and probably would have continued this year if the University had not been threatened with a lawsuit.The Sun also catches up with former President Jeff Lehman, and doesn...
...Innocence (both from novels that had been filmed before). In 2004 the director said he hadn't seen Infernal Affairs and wasn't planning to, but that almost doesn't matter. The Hong Kong movie's headlong confidence in using all resources of cinema (smart-jerky rhythms, a breathless narrative propulsion, the italicizing of a moment by a few frames of close-up slo-mo) to relate a tale of male bonding and betrayal - all this is so close to the style and substance of Scorsese movies, he could practically play IA on the insides of his eyelids...