Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rapacious defense held Brandeis in check throughout, while the hoopsters blitzed the Waltham opposition with a lightening quick fast break...
...expected, Loughran took the race after a fast start. Maass went out more slowly, hoping to speed up at the end and nab second. Canales, who shaved for the meet, chose a pace in between...
...went out too fast after Loughran," Canales said yesterday. "I soon realized I couldn't catch him and slowed down, but by 500 yards I was tired, and at 700 Maass caught me." The two dueled for 250 yards, but on the gun lap, Canales started to pull ahead. "I gave it all I had and beat him," Canales said...
...five years Mercury and May and their two colleagues, Drummer Roger Meddows Taylor and Bass Guitarist John Deacon, did not have much to show for their declared independence. They suffered from what Taylor describes as "a distinct lack of money." But lately Queen's fortunes have been rising fast. Under the guidance of Manager John Reid, 26, who also handles Elton John, Queen has become the monarch of British rock. A few weeks ago, Bohemian Rhapsody, a six-minute cut that mingles introspection with Gilbert and Sullivan operatics, hit the top of the British music charts. Queen...
Without any new additions to the plot, the pace of the movie slows down to a lugubrious, ponderous crawl. Here, Costa-Gavras has unwisely strayed from his style. His specialty is the fast-paced, linear form, where events are linked together in some exciting sequence and the movie moves forward by inertia. In Z, first the lingering fate of the seriously injured central figure, then the unexpected slant taken by the prosecutor kept the excitement up. Here, the tension dies long before the prisoners do. And the irony, predictably, becomes heavy-handed. The Latin motto "Justitia", inscribed in mosaic...