Word: slow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...director, John Sturges, uses the same technique Sergio Leone did in Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More. Sequences, especially those leading up to a shooting match, look like they're filmed in slow motion. They aren't. It's just that the camera--instead of sticking to a man, dogging him step by step--focuses on what's static around him. Expanses of desert or mountain or sun-bleached wall. So the violence that ensues seems less the result of cowboy determination than of fate...
...game Baker came down to the last 200 yards in sixth place, but his normal long stride had degenerated into a tired, painfully slow jog. First Navy's Jim Dare and then Columbia's Gary Rosenberg caught him in the drive for the wire...
...SLOW NATIVES, by Thea Astley. One of Australia's leading novelists tells a prickly story of a Brisbane family of intellectual pioneers who undergo a painful adjustment to a philistine society...
...tons harvested to about 192,000 tons. Peaches have slipped from 839,000 tons to 690,000 tons. Grapes, of which California produces 90% of the national total, will be off about 18% this year, to 2,800,000 tons. The weather did more than merely slow fruit formation. Peaches ripened as much as three weeks late, then developed a condition called split pits. The fruit in such cases is more costly to process because canneries have to run it through twice...
...second day of the City's election tally was a slow one. There were no new developments in the battle for nine City Council seats as Election Commission workers validated and recounted ballots to get an official total for each of the 20 candidates...