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...Pacers' Herb William scored at the outset of the second half, but the Celtics went on a teat to build a 30-point lead...
...outset of last week's televised debate among eight Democratic presidential candidates, Ted Koppel smiled into the camera and said, "The moderator will try to have complete control." That drew a laugh, but as usual, he was in earnest. Indeed, during the half of the debate that he moderated, Koppel, cool and cerebral, kept the discussion crisply controlled-and confirmed his reputation as perhaps the best serious interviewer on American...
...From the outset, the premise of Glenn's campaign has seemed questionable. He pitches himself as a moderate appealing to "the constituency of the whole." Yet primaries tend to be dominated by ideological activists, not middle-of-the-roaders. Glenn and company also staked too much on the magic of his astronautical fame. "They really believed they could transfer the aura of celebrity into a political gain," says a politician from Glenn's home state. "It is now clear they can't do that." Americans are indeed eager to see Hero Glenn, but once the crowds gather...
That set the stage through for Falward and Hunney and the batters to their up in the 1500 meter event Humney ran even with the field of the outset, but as the approached the final lap, he accelerated to finish first...
Always, in his paintings, one feels that things are happening on the other side of the frame, which is a virtual proscenium. It is exactly this removal that equipped him so well, at the outset, as a stage designer. As Friedman argues at some length in his text (and as a group of Hockney's easel paintings, included in the show, makes clear), theater has never been far from the core of his art. His shallow space quotes the conventions of the stage: flats, curtains, wings. There is a taste for exotic figures (red Indians, ancient Egyptians) and stage...