Word: paces
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David Lean’s direction is marred only by too slow a pace: the film did not need to run quite so close to three hours. He made brilliant use of the genuine tropical jungle against which the film was made. Scenes of marching men, jungles, hills and rivers are all tremendously effective in their CinemaScopic splendor, and the bridge goes up with a rousing blast. Moreover, every frame is closely bound up with the story: spectacle complements action instead of interfering with...
...last minute, the Supreme Court sanctioned the judicial shortcut by voting 6-3 not to stay the execution Conservative Justice William H. Rehnquist had long sought a way to speed up the pace of state executions; he now found help from the newest justice, Sandra Day O’Connor. Justices Marshall, Brennan and Stevens protested the decision: “The court of appeals... still has not acted on the merits of the [Brooks] appeal...
Paul Horowitz ’65 speaks swiftly, his mouth struggling to keep pace while his mind zips along tirelessly and rapidly from one subject to the next. A leading figure in the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) community and a professor of physics and electrical engineering at Harvard, he radiates quirky genius...
...when he stands, a common condition his doctors said did not put him at increased risk for stroke. A doctor's visit in March showed that he weighed 163 pounds, down six pounds from a year earlier, which he attributed to the campaign trail's "long days and frenetic pace...
...category. The once-empty “Science of the Physical Universe” category now contains one class: Science A-49: “The Physics of Music and Sound.” All eight Gen Ed categories now contain at least one course. “The pace of approval is picking up because most professors have adapted their proposals to the committee’s first round of comments and resubmitted them,” Gen Ed committee member John M. Sheffield II ’09 wrote in an e-mailed statement. “We?...