Word: slow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SLOW NATIVES, by Thea Astley. A mod family in Brisbane meets its moral fate in this lively social satire by an Australian craftsman of the novel...
Greenwood's miniprogram is televised over KSTP in Minneapolis and WDSM in Duluth during the network break in Meet the Press. Called Comment Capsule, it consists of a film interview with a different guest each week. A crewcut, slow-talking fellow, Greenwood, 36, is introduced as the president of the Midwest Federal Savings and Loan Association, but the plug in his "noncommercial commercial" ends there. The real pitchman is the week's visitor, for Greenwood never interrupts nor asks any discomfiting questions. All he does is get the guest started...
...division and isolation. Concrete architectural elements abound in certain sequences, carrying with them an implication of desolation and sterility. Repeated images of speeding trains come to be emblems of the growing disorder of the characters' emotional lives. Similarly, in a film which is built around static compositions and slow, graceful movements, all rapid pans and tracks come to carry a suggestion of disruption...
...strange kind of rally, one that was slow to develop, and, considering the way Navy had outclassed Harvard throughout the game, totally unexpected. But it was a rally nonetheless--a beautiful, exciting comeback--that enabled the Harvard basketball team to cut a 22-point Navy lead to one in the final nine minutes Saturday night before losing, 79-78, in the I.A.B...
Crimson forward Chris Gallagher took a nice feed from Jeff Grate ten seconds later and popped in a short turn-around jump shot to make the score 67-47. Navy started to slow down, and Harvard didn't score for another minute and a half. But neither did the midshipmen...