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SPINE-TINGLING MUSIC eerily permeates the scene. Slow, relentless footsteps pulse onward. Somewhere a shutter creaks in the wind. Suddenly, thunder splits the air. A flash of blinding lightning reveals a veiled figure, in its hand a weapon, a knife that brutally, inexpicably, and fatally goes slash in the night...
Fred Scherer set the pace early by consistently outracing the Bruin opponents to the ball as well as firing in two goals in the first three minutes of the game. Hard-fought battles both above and below the surface raged at both ends of the pool. The relentless Crimson leapt to an early 3-0 lead and prompted a Brown timeout...
...launch firms are able to survive the inevitable changes that come with rapid growth. Says Tushman: "The very characteristics that lead entrepreneurs to start companies--independence, innovation and a commitment to ideas--are the same ones that can cause their demise as managers. A mature firm cannot tolerate relentless turmoil or a tendency to dash off in all directions...
...does not work, of course. But Calvino's narrative of this doomed quest succeeds admirably, in part because he, like Samuel Beckett, recognizes the comic possibilities inherent in the tailspin of logic toward the absurd. Mr. Palomar's relentless speculations render him buffoonish. Passing a woman sunbathing topless on a beach, he averts his eyes lest she cover herself and embarrass them both. On reflection, though, he decides that his behavior was incorrect, since it reinforced outmoded taboos against nudity. So he walks by again, this time taking in the bare breasts as an incidental feature in the general landscape...
...increasingly critical. Television images, bounced off satellites to the remotest corners of the world, have made the cliche of the global village a reality. The polarization of nations along East-West lines has intensified the ratings war. Totalitarian states, by virtue of their complete control over the media, are relentless producers of propaganda. Democracies are sometimes gullible consumers. Complex issues can be twisted and made dangerously simple by clever opinion shapers, and if the masses can be moved, their elected leaders must follow. Nuclear weapons have raised the stakes. As real war becomes increasingly costly and nuclear war barely thinkable...