Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then goalie Sukie MacGraw pulled another in a string of unbelievable saves, thwarting a Jumbo fast break that looked like a free shot at the net. Coming way out of the goal, MacGraw hit the stick of the lone attacker as she spun around to shoot and knocked out the ball...
Johnson credited the Jumbos' sagging man-to-man defense with confusing the Crimson attack. "We were most successful on fast breaks, because we didn't quite know how to handle their defense when they had the chance to set up," she said...
...Eastern sort of stillness. There are five or so discrete sequences in each half, with a small break in between each, while Paxton wipes his brow or walks to a new starting position. Several phrases build to a similar climax: turns slipping into themselves and then into the floor, fast-falling tumbling jumps with the barest feel of contorted frenzy. The climaxes seem to come from one root gesture, a balance on one foot with the other leg held stiffly to the side just off the floor. Paxton transforms this pose at another moment into a slippery soft-shoe...
...turn the old joke "If you had to buy today the house you're living in, you couldn't afford it" into grim reality. Since 1970, according to a recent joint study by Harvard University and M.I.T., the price of new houses has climbed twice as fast as family incomes. The cost of maintaining a home (insurance, heating, property taxes) has risen still more. If present trends continue, the average new home, which now sells for $53,100, will...
...made by-the narrow and authoritarian standards of "tough" formalism, as issued to the world by Clement Greenberg and his epigones in Artforum. Nothing considered inessential to painting remained in it. No representation or symbolism. No drawing except of the most rudimentary and geometrical kind: circles, squares, chevrons, straight fast bands of color...