Word: porousness
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...offense, while clicking for five goals against a porous MIT defense, looked disorganized. This is no doubt because the starters lack the time and experience playing with each other and a knowledge of each other's moves that is tantamount to offensive precision. As coach Brace Munro remarked earlier in the week. "With four strangers on the line, it takes time." He hopes however, to begin implementing some offensive plays today, and hopefully the offense will begin to play more effectively...
...patent absurdity of all this is appealing not in a campy sense but a theatrical one. Leone has a highly individualistic visual style that is sometimes irritating but can be effective in a rather operatic way. He favors huge, porous closeups and compositions with profiles looming large in one corner or another of the wide-screen frame. The music is another Leone trademark. In the Eastwood epics, it will be remembered, a jew's-harp twanged madly every time an eyebrow was arched. Here Leone recruits some hapless vocalist to make melodramatic noises that seem to be an imitation...
...what's happened to our money," says one state development official, "Lagos tells us it's on the way-that it's been put into the 'development pipeline.' But it never comes out. Either the pipeline is blocked or the pipeline is porous...
...Government surveys, only 30% of riders buckle into the belts, and a mere 5% use the harnesses. To protect people more effectively, the Department of Transportation has ordered that all 1974 model cars be equipped with some kind of passive restraint, which in effect means "air bags": huge porous plastic bags that must pop out like balloons between motorist and instrument panel. They must inflate within forty-thousandths of a second after automatic sensors detect a collision, and then quickly deflate. In theory, at least, such a system could save at least 40% of the lives now lost in head...
...Biharis, non-Bengali Moslems who fled from India to Pakistan after partition in 1947, were favorite?and sometimes innocent?targets. Suspected sympathizers have been hacked to death in their beds or even beheaded by guerrillas as a warning to other villagers. More ominous is the growing confrontation along the porous 1,300-mile border, where many of the Pakistani army's 70,000 troops are trying to seal off raids by rebels based in India. With Indian jawans facing them on the other side, a stray shot could start a new Indo-Pakistani war?and one on a much more...