Word: slow
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...There's a long, slow middle passage, where Steve hides out with Anne's sturdy, Czech-American parents out in the heartland. But the movie smartly yanks itself back down into the murk, and ends with a sensational shot, in which the camera peers down a four-story stairwell, and Walt falls from the top flight, his body hitting and caroming off each railing. (Give a little wow of appreciation for the stunt crew...
...bikini by the pool of the Houston apartment complex they shared. She hopped in for a swim, and he looked on in wonderment as she steadied herself with her toes against the pool wall and stretched out to float serenely on her back, her long brown hair making a slow swirl in the blue water and her arms outstretched like a cross. She seemed so at peace he thought she might fall asleep on that bed of water. He would later find out that she was a champion swimmer and had once swum around an island in Mexico. She loved...
...conscience" for her steadfast support of the city's freedoms, Chan was mobbed by supporters and reporters when she joined this year's protest; as many as 1 in 4 demonstrators said her participation encouraged them to march. Last week, Chan gave her most detailed speech yet, criticizing the slow pace of democratic reform, and announced that she'd form a working group to look at ways of hastening its arrival. "I don't really know whether I can succeed or not," she told Time. "But at least it's worth...
...first time since 9/11, the U.S. military is feeling a different sort of pressure at home: a money crunch. Despite ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Congress has been slow to approve defense funds, even for the Army and Marines, which have borne the brunt of the fighting. That has left the Pentagon with a huge deficit--even though a 40% hike in its budget since 9/11 has swelled its yearly funding to nearly half a trillion dollars...
...ease off the pedal and my advancing anxiety over having only one, very short year left here immediately made me question my approach.Five years ago, former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 issued a now-famous letter to incoming students. Entitled “Slow Down: Getting More out of Harvard by Doing Less,” Lewis’ letter begged students to refrain from over-committing themselves, to focus on the quality, not quantity, of their college experiences, and to value their leisure time. Admittedly, his philosophy seems both logical and enviable...