Word: quickers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yesterday's game on the B.C. astroturf served as a warm-up for this Saturday's game against Penn, which in addition to being a very strong team, will have the advantage of playing on their home field which is also an artificial surface, one much quicker than any to which the Crimson are accustomed...
Against McNamara, Vastola, although he fell 5-4, hinted at what might have been, making quicker lunges than earlier in the day and trading touches until it became 4-4. He then hit off-target twice and looked for all the world like the dominant fencer...
...little slicker, maybe, a little quicker at turning a phrase or slipping in a joke, but pretty much the same old Danny Jiggetts...
...with a desert landscape and an ear-splitting blast of electronic music. Teddy (Gortner) and girlfriend Cheryl (Candy Clark) are waiting for a cocaine connection. Teddy makes Cheryl hide behind a rock. Two Mexicans appear and Teddy successfully robs them of both the cocaine and their guns by being quicker on the draw. As soon as they disappear, Cheryl jumps out of her hiding place screaming, "Jesus Christ! You scared the shit out of me! You shot at those men! Jesus Christ!" He sits chuckling at her, lets her rave for a while and then makes everything all right with...
...most confident example of the manner is by the Argentine-born architect Cesar Pelli, now dean of the college of art and architecture at Yale. His Pacific Design Center of 1976 has been assimilated into the local folklore of Los Angeles quicker than any building in recent memory, because it is so violently at odds with its flat suburban context. Known as the Blue Whale, it is an immense exhibition hall, the Crystal Palace of the West Coast, providing more than 750,000 sq. ft. of space. The surface is not mirror, but semitranslucent blue glass, which glitters and disappears...