Word: corridors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard locker room is usually a pleasant place. Not so the opposing locker room. After Harvard knocked off RPI, 4-1, in Troy, N.Y., I went to interview Engineer Coach Mike Addesa. I walked down a corridor toward the locker room. I was soon stopped by a heavy-set kid about 16 years...
Near the end of each week Senior Writer George Church pursues a late-evening ritual. Up and down, up and down, Church slowly paces the corridor of the Nation section in his stocking feet, puzzling out his story, drawing together elements from a welter of reportage and weaving those parts into the firm, seamless narratives that have made his writing almost legendary at TIME. Every so often on these jaunts a thoughtful grunt escapes his lips and he smiles in satisfaction. He then heads quickly back to his computer terminal to tap out the results of his stroll in paragraphs...
...storytelling, Dewitt finds it very interesting as a study of strange camera angles. In Kubrick's hands, it often seems as if the madman were behind the camera. Among the weirdo perspectives offered here, the best is an extended shot that follows a child driving a Big Wheel through corridor after corridor of the cavernous hotel, capturing the sight and sound of the toy vehicle passing over carpet and linoleum...
...bomb in the bag, but I couldn't imagine what was making the noise. I opened it and discovered that my electric razor had turned on when I dropped the bag. I laughed and showed the buzzing razor to the terrified people, who were peering cautiously from the corridor. The policeman crawled from under the bench, and the two warriors returned to their table. We all laughed together...
Down the hall, the newly-refurbished Nautilus room boasts a corridor-long hall of mirrors and nine "toning" machines. Here varsity athletes mix with recreational shaper-uppers. One day earlier this week, a man sporting a red "Harvard men don't stop at third base" shirt struggled with the dreaded thigh machine, while a women's lacrosse player chatted with one of the weight room regulars...