Word: rapides
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Without prelude, the rapid approach of a loud, metallic whine overhead transformed normal activity in the township of Umuahia, which now serves as the rebels' headquarters, into frightened cries and panicked running about. A few seconds later, a single low-flying jet plane cut a straight line across the town, releasing as it went six pairs of rockets. Two plowed caverns into the grass huts outside the Red Cross headquarters at Saint Stephen's School, where schoolgirl volunteers sat outside preparing garri for the evening meal...
...Circus, is currently showing his Game Room in Manhattan's Howard Wise Gallery. As each visitor steps onto one of the four sets of marked footprints (red for fire, blue for water, yellow for air and green for earth), he triggers photoelectric cells that set in motion a rapid-fire sequence of images, lights and sounds. Nature lovers (green) find themselves contemplating a skeleton emerging from a pregnant woman, a wheat field, a graveyard. "People become part of the art object," Martin explains. "They score it. They compose it. I supply the format...
...rapid worker ("I don't like the infielders to get cold or bored behind me"), Koosman throws from a short windup, relies on just two pitches: a steaming fastball and a tantalizing slow curve. He never played high-school baseball, but pitched for Army and semi-pro teams while he was at Fort Bliss, Texas in 1964. "My catcher was a fellow named John Lucchese," recalls Jerry, "whose father was an usher at Shea Stadium. He told his dad he had a pretty good pitcher, and his dad told the Mets. They sent a guy out to scout...
...defense spending, plus the ordinary growth of the economy, the CEA calculates that the Government will be able to distribute a $30 billion "fiscal dividend" to the nation. Part of it should be lower taxes to stimulate civilian demand, says the council, and part of it should be a rapid boost in federal outlays for education, health, housing, pollution control, highway beautification and the fight against slums...
MOST gifted in this alchemical effort are Daniel Seltzer as Caesar, and Susan Yakutis as Cleopatra. Seltzer's performance is especially impressive: not only are his readings rapid and controlled, but he succeeds in underplaying effectively a role which would tempt any actor to bravado. As the ultimate embodiment of the Shavian pragmatic, democratic, sympathetic Superman, he also manages to convey a vision of humility in majesty. Further, his discipline deserves to underline the character's moments of wit and emotion, and to set the lonely Caesar apart from the more broadly drawn figures who surround him. The greatest virtues...