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...this thoughtfulness eventually takes on a mannered, self-conscious tone. The audience can see the actors rearranging themselves after every speech; meaningful glances are bandied around pointedly during the opening scenes a la Perry Mason, and Stewart won't surrender an inch of the theatre to dead space. The action studiously invades the left and right side stages and even the aisle...

Author: By Edward P. Mcbride, | Title: The Speedy Rise and Fall of Fuente Ovejuna | 10/28/1993 | See Source »

Donahoe still had to save the game for Harvard in the closing seconds of the game. New Hampshire had a corner kick with about 20 seconds remaining, and Donahoe used every inch on her 5-11 frame to knock the ball away from the net--in the process colliding with an onrushing Wildcat player and landing in the goal...

Author: By Michael E. Ginsberg, | Title: Women's Soccer Defeats UNH, 2-1 | 10/20/1993 | See Source »

Filmed in gorgeous black and white (with one epiphanic use of color), the cinematography features many exquisitely framed shots, where each actor is posed as if in a theater performance. The camera needs every inch of horizontal space it can get; some characters speak to each other from the far edges of the screen...

Author: By Young-ho Yoon, | Title: Kurosawa's Exquisite Film, `High and Low' | 10/14/1993 | See Source »

...amount will likely be somewhere around the average 42 inches this year, barring a freak occurance like last year's 90-inch total of the white stuff...

Author: By Douglas M. Pravda, | Title: City Plowers Prepare for Snowy Streets | 10/13/1993 | See Source »

...because the head is very, very close to the platter surface--typically only one one-thousandth of an inch away--any physical shock to the hard disk could well cause the metal head to scratch over the platter surface and destroy whatever information that's stored in the path. Such damages are physical and therefore unrecoverable: your data is simply lost forever...

Author: By Haibin Jiu, | Title: Keep it Running | 10/5/1993 | See Source »

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