Word: pacing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Once they were strung out around the big brick-&-asphalt saucer, the drivers had not the foggiest notion of their relative position in the race. They relied, as speedway drivers must, on the mechanics in the pit for information, pace instructions, fuel, repairs. Unlike the racehorse owner, who can only watch after his thoroughbred takes the track, Car Owner Lou Moore stood in the pit, busy, nervous, efficient...
...Russian cooperation. The end of the British support for Greece (which left the U.S. in a lonely if Olympian sentry box) ended the first delusion. Moscow ended the second by shunning the reconstruction agencies of the United Nations, by stalling on peace treaties, and by stepping up the pace of Communist movements everywhere. The Russians at last made clear that their rubles were on Western collapse, not recovery...
...plenty of high-school wonders flop in the big time-but Bobby Feller was only 17 when scouts found him in Van Meter, Iowa, and they always hope to find another. Among Bob Hansen's technical skills: a blinding fastball with which he mixes a tantalizing change of pace, a wide-breaking curve, a .461 batting average...
...trial & error. Before many weeks, he was supplying rules and statistics for bewildered sports fans, ignoring the obvious, calling an occasional play wrong to delight armchair experts, devising a set of silent signals and on-the-air cues for his cameramen and spotters, keeping his commentary at a slow pace so that the cameras could follow without jerky images. His friends helped out by bar-hopping and giving him reports of audience reaction to his sportcasting. For a while, he had an uneasy sensation that he was becoming a victim of technocracy-"merely a stooge for mechanical contraptions...
Probably the main trouble is that Portrait in Black literally talks itself out of being exciting enough. All the characters are so frightfully conversational that they eventually slow down the pace and thin out the action...