Word: kept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dead-even after the start, both crews settled at 37 strokes per minute. The lead kept shifting from the Crimson to Princeton and back again while M.I.T. never figured in the race...
...elevator would only allow three people at a time to come up," Sack explains. "The only thing different is that we don't have the guards he kept here. That antique clock, this table, that desk over there--they all belonged to Ambassador Kennedy, too, when he owned the RKO chain." Yes, Ben Sack, having acquired a Kennedy theatre, went on to inhabit a Kennedy office. Why, Norman Podhoretz couldn't have done it any better...
...tangled swampland crawling with snakes, boars, tigers-and virtually untouchable Viet Cong. It has been a prime enemy redoubt since 1946, and what the Viet Cong have built in it no one but they know: no non-Communist troops have ever dared venture in, and its masters even kept villagers living on the forest fringes from entering their lair...
...plays itself out almost mechanically: Foxy's fetus is aborted, the Whitmans and the Hanemas get divorced, Piet and Foxy marry and move away. The remaining couples take up bridge, their place in the town having been quietly usurped by a younger crowd that "held play readings, and kept sex in its place, and experimented with LSD." Toward the end, Updike provides a fortissimo blast of obvious symbolism: the Congregational Church goes up in an apocalyptic fire that leaves untouched only the old tin weathercock, riding high over the gutted house...
...forest of microphones in the studio. One knob channeled Williams' voice through an echo chamber; others-muffled or brightened various sections of the orchestra. The drums alone were surrounded by four microphones through which Cole, by deftly manipulating tone and volume controls, accented certain phrases or kept the brass from overpowering the beat...