Word: slow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...number of concerned Cambridge residents have formed a community group to keep informed of government action on the development, but so far that action has been slow in coming...
Ruth Whitman, intermingling poetry and prose, tells Tamsen Donner's personal story, and creates a secular epic at the same time. The Donner party strikes out for California in 1846 for "fun" and meets tragedy. The end is not sudden, but is the slow unloading of the baggage of the old life. "George lifts my heavy crate of Shakespeare... and hides it in a hill of salt," and the old identity...
...innovative director probably could have reshaped this material; in the hands of Jean-Luc Godard or Terence Malick, Straight Time might even have been a fascinating variation on Breathless or Badlands. Ulu Grosbard, who did direct, is but a journeyman film maker. He substitutes slow pacing and dour photography for style. Only the action scenes get him moving: when Max and his cronies stage their robberies, Straight Time actually manages to work up a little sweat...
Harvard came out slow in the opener against highly-touted Hopkins a week ago. The Bluejays, fresh off a 21-10 bombardment of Washington College and a similar 22-5 annihilation of Towson State, jumped out to a 6-0 halftime lead as the Crimson tried to get used to playing on grass for the first time this season...
DIED. John Cazale, 42, an actor who went straight to the private heart of his every characterization; of cancer; in Manhattan. Cazale found his widest success as Fredo, the slow, shy, forever startled, finally traitorous older brother in Francis Coppola's Godfather films. Other parts-notably as Al Pacino's out-of-tune partner in Dog Day Afternoon-confirmed Cazale's gift for searching out the darkest shadows in a role, then rendering them with shades of wit and unswerving compassion...