Word: slow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Denny McLain?30 victories, the World Series, that five-figure bonus check, more endorsement money, more of everything. And for McLain, it will be none too soon. "I want what I want now," he says. "I don't expect to live to 40. My wife keeps telling me to slow down. But I can't slow down. I just live too fast. My father died at 36. His father died at 36. And his father died at 32. I'm in a little better shape than my father, and I can do a lot in 16 years." With that, Pitcher...
Rehearsals were slow work. Watching the action, Clurman would dictate comments to two translators ("That girl drops her handbag as though there's not a yen in it"), then pantomime the parts as he wanted them played while the notes were read in Japanese to the actors. Despite this cumbersome procedure and the actors' difficulty with naturalism, Clurman thinks that he'll have a hit when the play opens on Sept...
...moth's spikes, a scant 26 ten-thousandths of an inch long, provide it with an automatic lifesaving device. Without them, says Callahan, the slow and conspicuous insects would probably take wing during daylight. And if they did so, they would make themselves easy prey for birds...
Dayton's has fully computerized its B. Dalton operation to keep track of fastand slow-moving titles, meanwhile taking pains to make the chain seem like a group of friendly neighborhood booksellers. Most B. Dalton ads use the first person to proclaim "I am having a sale," or "I see a growing interest in the occult." Mixing mechanization with the personal touch is a Dayton's hallmark that has paid off for the company as a whole. Last year Dayton's had sales of $265,507,000 and profits of $9,587,000, a gain of some...
...camera techniques and casting a Negro Maoist. Though his color photography begins effectively-notably in Zita's terror-glazed recollections of the Spanish Civil War-it ends by stifling the film in a glut of self-consciousness. Annie's seduction scene, for example, is absurdly overplayed in slow motion. Such sequences may look poetic in the cutting room; in the rhetoric of film they have become the equivalent of purple prose...