Word: paces
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...breaks all these taboos and more. The absorbing two-hour premiere takes place in one 24-hour period in a big-city emergency room (Chicago again), and it's probably the most realistic fictional treatment of the medical profession TV has ever presented. The pace is furious, the narrative jagged and unsettling. Cases are wheeled in and out -- a severed hand, a gunshot wound, a child who has swallowed a key -- and while some are followed to a conclusion of sorts, others disappear without a trace. Yet the episode, directed by Rod Holcomb, is not just a cinema-verite jumble...
...times, task-force work bordered on the absurd. On March 16 he recalled that amid the frantic pace, Magaziner sent a memo to group leaders noting that 5,000 letters were arriving daily. "We need your help," Magaziner wrote. "Our goal is to answer this mail before our May deadline." On April 2, 1993, after being asked for details of savings from various price-control proposals, Ukockis participated in another silly session. "We sat around the table making guesstimates of the savings to be realized. It was an appropriate exercise for April Fools...
...Barry polling | just 1% of the white vote. Many middle- and upper-income blacks have also abandoned Barry, which means that to win, he will have to rely on heavy turnout among lower-income blacks. To add to that base, Barry has been registering new voters at a record pace...
...game. Ty Cobb once called baseball "something like a war"; these box-seat philosophers, shot in contemplative, dreamy-eyed closeup, treat it as something like a religion. "Baseball is a beautiful thing," says sportscaster Bob Costas. "The way the field fans out. The choreography of the sport. The pace and rhythm of it." Mario Cuomo, Governor of New York and a ^ former minor leaguer, praises baseball's celebration of community, symbolized by the sacrifice bunt: "Giving yourself up for the good of the whole -- that's Jeremiah, that's thousands of years of wisdom." Political commentator George Will sees...
...against Castro, fear he cannot lead them out of the current economic crisis. Some of the party faithful, who have always claimed Fidel enjoyed universal support, now acknowledge he may command the allegiance of only half the populace. Reformers are exasperated -- and worried -- by Castro's slow pace of change since he legalized the dollar a year ago. "The problem is not just food shortages," says a historian still loyal to socialism and Fidel. "The government has to redesign the whole system. If we don't reform and the U.S. blockade remains, the only possibility is an explosion. Cuba...