Word: slow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another fault of the book is its emphasis on the game story. Whereas Feinstein's interviews and anecdotes give the book its unique color and life, the game stories slow down the reader's pace. The reader is no longer reading a book, but a 464-page story on how Perdue managed to sneak one past Indiana...
Jack and Stanley have two father-son talks--one regarding Stanley's near loss of a job, and one regarding Stanley's gambling away his salary. Admittedly, the latter is a weak moment in the script, but the slow, word-minced, unemotional exchange between Frost and Herzstein reflects neither the son's penitence and rededication to the family nor the father's pervading concern about his overseas relatives and the possibility that they might be coming to live in his already cramped quarters...
...Cole pinned in the second period after a slow start, extending his undefeated record to eight matches in the 126-lb. weight class. John Willoughby, at 177 lbs., also brought home three points, finishing...
Tonight at the Briggs Athletic Center (7:30 p.m. tipoff, 95.3 WHRB), Harvard (1-3) will use a similar strategy when it meets fast-breaking Holy Cross. Although the Crimson, an up-tempo squad itself, will not attempt to slow things down as drastically as Brandeis tried to do, it will want to keep the Crusaders from hitting triple digits...
Akeem: Well, the tourist trade was pretty slow then, and since the Revolution, there just haven't been any good bakeries in the city...