Word: slow
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...comes a time when many things outlive their purpose. Think Ol’ Yeller or the phrase “stay the course.” The UC’s Web site passed this point during the Clinton administration. Link by link, the Web site should die a slow, painful death...
...creating a good-looking oven that could cook a range of items and contain the odor--lest a store not smell first and foremost of coffee--was a challenge. Even after some breakfast sandwiches were developed, entirely new deployment routines had to be created so that employees would not slow the line. "If our espresso-only or drip-only customers suffered," says Alling, "it wouldn't be worth doing...
...took almost the entire meet for the Crimson to make that adjustment in women’s saber. “We had a hard day,” junior co-captain Samantha Parker said. “In the end we came through. We were able to slow down, take our time, finish our action and make it our game.” With junior Carolyn Wright leaving for a semester abroad in Egypt this January, things will not get any easier on the squad. “It’s going to be a tremendous loss, because...
Schifferes also delivered a notable performance, and while Adamson was a weak performer in the first act, he later became more intriguing with his spirited denunciation of Captain Shotover’s daughters. Bohrer was also slow to grow into his character, but he reached his element in the second act when he wildly alternated between furious rampages and lovelorn docility...
Unfortunately, the already slow pace of the play faltered towards the end of the second act and did not pick up again until the second half of Act III. This period possessed the languor of the first act without achieving the same captivating performances. The actors literally just sat still and exchanged banter—which is what they did throughout most of the play, but by Act II, this direction had grown tedious...