Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Altogether, the evening was an amazing mix of jazz and gospel, fast-paced dance and tenderly spiritual prayer. The Alvin Ailey company performed superbly and should be highly anticipated when it returns next spring...
...play very clearly comes from a longer prose work. Weinstein and Yee seem to have tried to strike a balance between dramatizing character development and bringing concrete action to the stage, but the latter often works better than the former. Blocks of monologue, rather than quick banter or fast-moving action, mark the development of the story. One character frequently delivers a revelation or reminiscence to another in a single, unbroken block of text. This can make for unusually slow theatrical pacing...
Still, the Crimson's defense was solid overall. Harvard negated Yale's speed advantage by cutting down on its fast-break opportunities--the glaring exception being when the Bulldogs scored their eighth goal 12 seconds after the Crimson's sixth--and while in its set defense, Harvard was quick to stickcheck any ballcarrier near the goal...
...most of the scenes which involved more than one actor fell prey to the common Shakespeare performance problem of speeding. This habit was especially pernicious in an excerpt from The Comedy of Errors, in which the two actors portraying Antipholus and Dromio rushed and tumbled through their lines so fast that the bawdy jokes (as well as much of the sense of the scene) left the audience in the dust...
...Raiders' only offense came in the form of long-range bombs from outside the Crimson defense. Freshman goalie Angela Munoz stopped most of these easily, letting only two in. The other Colgate goals came on a rebound putback and a fast break with 38 seconds in the game...