Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most painful, Director Jack Viertel stretched the eighteen minute playlet to half an hour, on the theory that unhappiness slows all conversations down to 121/2 rpm. He mis-paced differently in the mask scene, which moved too fast to contain the action and the full cast...
...miles of the earth, Alley found, the spacecraft's speed was the predominant factor; time slowed up and the astronauts actually aged more slowly than mere earthlings. But beyond that distance, as the effects of earth's gravity lessened, Apollo's time began running fast. Over the entire journey, Alley says, Apollo's time passed more quickly than earth time by the 300 microseconds...
Tierney admits he is amazed by the fast-moving U.S. silver market. "If two people in New York decide to bid against each other for something," he says in wonder, "they don't care what they pay. That doesn't happen in London. Competitive bidding only goes as far as each thinks the value to be." Under his knowledgeable supervision, Parke-Bernet's volume in silver sales has leap-frogged from $388,320 in 1967 to $1,197,785 last year...
...THERE ARE OTHER things in life beside sex and booze," wails Belle Bottom midway through the first act of Bottoms Up. "Yeah, but try to name one fast," her father Rock Bottom retorts. The level of punning never gets much higher than clinkers like the protagonists' names, so you had better find a little delight in Rock's old-fashioned cynicism. And if you'll buy, even for one night, the fragile premise that liquor and screwing are the soul of a good time, the 121st Hasty Pudding Show just may seem a delight rather than a fleece...
Harvard's sensation Steve Krause swam a very strong race in the 1000-free, turning in a fast time of 10:27 for an easy win over Penn's Craig Delmore. A few moments later, Cahalan broke the record in the 50-free with a 21.8 clocking to better the 7-year-old mark by 0.1 seconds...