Word: paces
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MARTHA DUFFY recalls going to the Exeter Theatre in Boston in 1947 to see a film of Queen Elizabeth's wedding to Prince Philip. "I was enchanted," she says, "by the eerie slow pace and pomp of the ceremony." Since then Duffy, now a TIME senior writer, has avidly tracked the Windsors, editing three cover-length stories on Princess Diana and writing two more, including this week's report on the royal divorce. Her fascination is less for dynasty than for star quality: "Diana was always eloquent about herself, through body language. She has the concentration of a fine actress...
Chungking has enough wit and pace to keep any mall crowd entertained. But it's the cinema verve of Wong's five films to date that makes them wholly his, whether he's doing gangster films (As Tears Go By, Fallen Angels), young-rebel dramas (Days of Being Wild) or kung-fu sagas (Ashes of Time, a film so beautifully bizarre it might be the first Martian-arts movie). The elements of his visual style: nightscapes (bars, beds, jukeboxes); sulky boys in white shirts; anomie punctuated by awful violence; murky lighting, as if scenes had been shot underwater and daubed...
Unfortunately for Carswell, he got knocked out of the heats yesterday afternoon. The junior got pushed out into lane six with 600 meters to go, and he never could get back into rhythm. Carswell finished the 3,000-meter race in 8:23, well off his usual pace...
Harvard came out flat but picked up the pace in the second two sets. The team was often even with Roger Williams throughout the sets, but was unable to pull them...
...team had a slow start this season but has been picking up the pace ever since," Baez said. "With experience we've been getting better and better...