Word: skips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...potentially the second, so the eternal matchup of gore and guile doesn't just occupy him outwardly, it swirls inside him as well. Modern moviemakers are good at capturing the choreography of fights -- they understand the Apache dance. But in their Dolby deafness they overdo the supersonic bashing and skip one of the crucial attractions: the missing. Making a man miss is the art. Fundamentally, boxers are elusive. They vanish one moment, reappear the next, rolling around the ring like the smoke in the light...
...President. These new tape recorders don't skip a minute." I did not say that. I did not even think it, caught so thoroughly off guard in the fearful comedy of his presence...
Moments after a skip shot bounced off the right post, midfielder Robert Griffith gunned a shot that seemed to slide right across the ground. The ball was never more than six inches above the grass and only stopped when it hit the back...
...faced with a broken VCR or a broken computer. To build this system, de Kleer has spent ten years codifying what he calls "qualitative" calculus that will provide the language to build "common-sense physics." The problem with common sense is that it requires the computer to skip nimbly among many different perspectives in order to find the approach that best fits a problem. The computer must be able to simultaneously maintain the assumptions underlying these different perspectives, and de Kleer says that this, again, will require massive processing power. He looks to parallel processing for the power...
Harvard (3-0) got on the scoreboard early. Robert Griffith's skip shot found its way into the upper corner at 1:50 of the first quarter...