Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Italian literary stage at a time when there were few other performers. He became a success because he managed to write poetry that filled a political function: a poetry the Left could use as cultural propaganda. Now, after his murder, the books of "our martyred comrade" are selling fast...
...things, of course, remained the same, as they always do. Pope Paul called for peace on earth. The New York Times noted that April, with its whippoorwills, arrived on schedule soon after the departure of March and its curlews and gusty winds. On some fronts, though, we were losing fast. The ozone layer was dissolving and the polar ice caps melting. On the other hand, Venice stopped sinking...
This external elegance is paralleled by an elegance of form. Not a shot is wasted. There is no padding, no elongation of emotion to make it seem more profound. Truffaut moves fast, making his points so quickly that there is no time to intellectualize them. Film is as immediate in impact as it should be. The whole burden of Adele's life, complex and important as it is, is summed up in one piece of dialogue. Adele goes to see a British judge whose daughter is engaged to marry the Lieutenant. Adele wants to break up the engagement by hook...
...They overdo the whole business of juding raw talent rather than the ability to win games," says Brayton. "It's like in football, where they keep computer cards on every player--your height, weight, how fast you run the hundred. They emphasize physical characteristics. One time a scout told me that the best way to impress a scout is to throw like hell for five innings, and don't worry about how long you can last, or about where the ball goes...
Burke replied five minutes later culminating a flashy power play rush from center ice with Harvard's third goal to finish the fast-paced period with Harvard outshot 11-9, but leading...