Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ONLY TWO SPOTS does Rush trip over the illusion he has created--and in each case the self-consciousness of the directorial gesture, not its content, spoils the effect. Before the play starts, a spotlight focuses on the stage's real rolling un Shakespearean tones what the audience's curiosity as to "what's behind the curtain," game show style. Far bit for this reviewer to reveal what in Fact happens when the curtains part later on. But if the admittedly stunning effect is intended to be integral to the production, why bill it to all intents and purposes...
Local officials were still sharpening pencils to tally results on election night when the networks started calling winners. ABC's analysts won the rush to judgment: they were first with projections in 33 races for Senator or Governor, vs. 17 for NBC and 16 for CBS. A crucial tool for the networks was the "exit poll" of randomly chosen voters at some ten to 75 precincts per state, for a total of up to 36,000 people per network. The technique was pioneered by CBS Pollster Warren Mitofsky in 1967; since the 1980 primaries it has been a favorite...
...Crusders knew before the kickoff that Allard would be trouble. They had seen the films and read the stats--1136 yards passing for 11 TDs--and they were prepared to put on a tough pass rush. And they did. After the first 15 minutes of play, Allard had completed two passes to Holy Cross defenders and only one to his own receivers...
...magazine greater currency--trying to push it back towards being a center for Harvard undergraduate literature and arts community, for young critics and writers at Harvard," says Advocate President Lynne Murphy '83. Lighting cigarette after cigarette, she speaks in a soft, punctuated staccato, occasionally tripping over words in her rush to get them out. "We hope the place itself can become more of a center for literary discussion and debate," she repeats. "For the past ten years everyone's talked about it but somehow it's never happened...
President Nixon, eager to have a showcase for the Bicentennial tourists coming to Washington, had ordered the center to be finished for a July 4, 1976, opening. In the rush, planners neglected heating, wiring and plumbing. Work began before the cost estimates and architectural plans were finished. A construction contract was signed that invited cost overruns. The crumbling roof was ignored. "It sounds horrible in retrospect but in the rush we never addressed the problem of the roof," Hite says. "We were going to open that thing willy-nilly." Ironically, the great Bicentennial crowds never materialized...