Word: paces
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Grim Reaper himself may slow his pace for the oldest old. While the chance of dying increases exponentially with each year from 50 to 90, the odds rise less steeply after...
This may not be entirely their fault. The film's fast pace precludes extensive characterization, but supplies enough suspense to almost make up for it. Boyle opens with a time-lapse sequence, heightening its effect with adrenaline-pumping disco music. He maintains "Shallow Grave's" suspenseful pace by frequently skipping several days in the roommates' increasingly chaotic lives. This disorienting technique keeps the viewer as unprepared as the conspirators for the next bout of violence...
Though the quick pace of change ensures that Duke's 2001 is little more than a stopgap remedial course for the time being, Fulton's students will nonetheless graduate with valuable basic knowledge of the modern tools of communication. Soon after the new millennium rolls around, however, such a catch-up Odyssey will probably be unnecessary -- at Duke or anywhere else. By that time it will have become the 21st century equivalent of that 1950s relic, Typing...
...carried us through is our refusal to give up, our refusal to die," Harvard captain Tal Ben-Shachar '96 said. "Most of the matches against Princeton were tightly fought, but they always broke. It was inevitable. That's how we prepared--they were unable to endure the fast-pace of the matches. The satisfaction was immense...
...image like this, which describes Vienna's distaste for mundane tea-table conversation: "It was as remote from her interests as the hieroglyphs spewed from the endless coiling tongue of a ticker-tape machine." The trouble is that the accretion of similes sometimes slows the story to a maddening pace. Nevertheless, Mosby's debut serves as a rich and accomplished antidote to the works of so many nouveau minimalists...