Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BULLITT. Steve McQueen plays it fast and supercool as a San Francisco cop in this modish, violent thriller about current life styles in the underworld...
...nearly every Egyptian, the new moon that settled over the Nile Valley in mid-November brought with it a period of brooding and selfcriticism. It marked the advent of Ramadan, the Moslem holy month, when the faithful stop to fast, offer prayers and examine the fullness or emptiness of their lives...
...back toward the earth and safety. But if the SPS should fail between the 80-and 110-sec. marks of its scheduled 246-sec. burn, Apollo would enter what NASA euphemistically describes as an "unstable orbit." After rounding the moon, it would begin heading back toward earth, but not fast enough to escape the moon's gravitational pull. Depending on the length of the abortive burn, Apollo would sooner or later fall back and crash into the lunar surface...
Navy's pressuring man-to-man defense may have been the decisive factor. Harvard never was able to get its offense--especially the fast break--in gear and Dale Dover, the sophomore flash who tallied 27 against Brandeis, was held to 3. Ernie Hardy and Bobby Johnson were the only men besides Gustafson in double figures for the Crimson--with 10 apiece...
...rest of the songs on the album are of varying degrees of goodness, with many many Beatle-like touches of genius (the glittering horns and Paul's singing in "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"; the two tempos in "Helter-Skelter"--Ringo's medium and George's very fast and the precise interchange between them; the ponderous massive build-up to an electrifying flourish in "I'm So Tired"); but they are too often only unsustained touches...