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NCAA qualifying time and new Blodgett Pool and School Record--400-yd. Individual Medley--Lundberg (H-swimming unofficially) 4:01.48. the backstroke. Although Lundberg trailed at the halfway point, the Provo, Utah, native needed only 15 yards of his specialty to leave his competitors in his wake...
...wisp of a girl who could whip through spectacular leaps and spins in the blink of an eye. Yet her skating never flowed with the liquid style of Peggy Fleming's; it flared in a series of brief, athletic explosions. Before one could count the spins, she was gone, halfway across the ice and midway through another trick. She never imparted the joy of Janet Lynn or pushed her personality to the rafter seats as Hamill had done. She simply whipped the bejabbers out of gravity and seemed to make it all look easy...
REINER, OF COURSE, is ultimately culpable for mistakes like that. Halfway through the film, one begins to wonder whether he wandered off the set between each "Action!" and "That's a take." Before Navin acquires his fortune by inventing the "Optigrab"--a device which holds eyeglasses to the face by running a piece of wire from the bridge of the glasses to the tip of nose--Marie leaves him, apparently because he is not wealthy. As she composes her farewell note, a heavily-made-up Peters cries crocodile tears--as mascara and eyeshadow smear their way down her face. Reiner...
...myself employed a speech instructor to work with me on my preaching after noticing that I was bored halfway through the sermon...
...About halfway through the seven-year liaison, Robert and Emma go to Venice for a vacation, and it becomes obliquely clear that Robert knows about the affair. Perhaps he knew all along. Who knew what, when, constitutes the sole suspense factor of the evening. A confirmed philanderer, Robert is not about to incite a showdown. But it goes rather deeper than that, into the realm of male bonding. Jerry does not really feel remorse about betraying his unseen wife, but he feels terribly guilty about betraying his best friend. Similarly, Robert complains that they never play squash any more...