Word: span
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Berowne, the naysayer who winds up narrating a good deal of the young men's transitions from games to reality. Max Cantor, whose forte seems to be bringing believable emotion to stylized and ultra-verbose lines, uses physical cavorting not to distract the audience, but to jog the attention span every couple of paragraphs. And despite the length of his speeches, the ongoing struggle that structures the lines--the attempt to find true emotions among his fiends posturings--creates a clearly defined character, allowing Cantor to mold an actual stage presence...
...slowly became aware of television's frequent triviality, its distorting brevity, its obsession with action and movement, its infantile attention span and its profound lack of thoughtful analysis," the author says. Turning away from the money and the fame. MacNeil walked...
...grass of Centre Court. In the title match, Connors revived fires of the past to defeat last year's champion, 23-year-old John McEnroe, 3-6, 6-3, 6-7, 7-6, 6-4. The triumph marked Connors' first Wimbledon championship since 1974, an eight-year span between victories topped only by Bill Tilden's nine-year hiatus (1921 to 1930). "I was going to do anything not to let this chance slip by," said Connors afterward. "I was going to fight to the death." Another veteran, two-time Wimbledon Winner Martina Navratilova, 25, slammed...
Some people don't belong in this decaying cityscape. One is Deckard (Harrison Ford), a burntout, Bogie-style detective; the others are "replicants," robots of advanced design who have infiltrated the city to find their creator and prolong their short, violent lives beyond the allotted four-year span. Deckard, brought back into service to kill the quartet of replicants, finds it no easy job-for they are powerful and cunning, and he is tired beyond caring. Moreover, Deckard's emotions have been short-circuited from a lifetime of dirty police work, whereas the emotions of the replicant leader...
...players and the fans." Destroyed was the admittedly silly belief that the guy in the bleachers could be the guy in the bullpen. "The players are [now] businessmen too--businessmen with a vengeance, it seems--and the space between the fan and the player is the same light years span that divides the television star or the famous nightclub singer from his patronized and wholly anonymous audience...