Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Turner frets that needless fast chases will continue until police attitudes are changed. "There's an ego problem," he explains. "Rookies, especially, tell themselves, 'No son of a bitch is going to beat me.' That type is dangerous?to himself and everyone else...
...Goyles, is treading near the edge of the Inferno with his creation. A loose musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the fall production of the Radcliffe Grant-in-Aid Society suffers the fate of many similar musicals that break from the gate with fast scores, only to get bogged down in the backstretch with a muddy script. Borowitz's music and lyrics are undoubtedly first-rate, but his book is simply ridden with too many stale jokes to carry the action. As the playwright's first effort, perhaps, the play succeeds; but taken...
...good. But Borowitz's manic idea somehow falters on the way to the cathedral, as the characters find themselves spouting an assortment of intolerable puns, weak jokes about SAT scores, bestiality and the Catholic Church, and often tastelessly leering sexist remarks. Instead of serving as a fast-paced interlude between the big production numbers, the plot wraps itself around its own self-conscious cuteness, and leaves the audience fidgeting in its seats...
...well-planned strategy for the Radcliffe racers. "I look at the girl's three-mile course as a speed race. We train for a strong first mile around 5:20 to establish dominance at the start. I condition the girls with speed/endurance intervals; first we do a few fast, then rest, and do several at a slower pace," Hunt explained...
Stanley Flink, Yale's director of public information, said yesterday, "The job freeze is to slow things down fast, while we search for equilibrium of our income versus expenses." Flink added, "This is, of course, a temporary move but it is firm and effective...