Word: slow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spring golf match in the East is usually a wet cold afternoon of trudging around brown fairways and grassless greens. Golf is a summer sport meant to be played under a July sun behind a slow foursome of businessmen...
Rocky Jarvis overcame the mechanical style of Amherst's Bob Duss to win a slow-motion battle at number two singles 7-5,6-3. Normally an aggressive hitter, "the Rock" proved his versatinty by remaining at the baseline and giving Duss a lesson at his own game...
Will we make Martin Luther King's undiminished and unyielding dream of an integrated and just society of black and white a reality? Or will we allow the slow motion of judicial, all deliberate speed to continue to maim the minds of the young, black and white alike...
Even compromised in order to placate audiences, Kubrick's handling of the visual relationship between time and space is more than impressive. He has discovered that slow movement (of space crafts, for example) is as impressive on a Cinerama screen as fast movement (the famous Cinerama roller-coaster approach), also that properly timed sequences of slow movement actually appear more real--sometimes even faster--than equally long long sequences of fast motion shots. No film in history achieves the degree of three-dimensional depth maintained consistently in 2001 (and climaxed rhapsodically in a shot of a pulsating stellar galaxy); Kubrick...
...following scene, an australopithicine discovers what we will call the tool, a bone from a skeleton which, when used as an extension of the arm, adds considerably to the creature's strength. The discovery is executed in brilliant slow motion montage of the pre-ape destroying the skeleton with the bone, establishing Kubrick and Clarke's subjective anthropological notion that the discovery of the tool was identical to that of the weapon. The "dawn of man," then, is represented by a coupling of progress and destruction; a theme of murder runs through 2001 simultaneously with that of progress. Ultimately, Kubrick...