Word: spans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Boston College came alive when Northeastern went into a defensive shell. Yet despite several good scoring chances, the Eagles were unable to get on the board during the next 13 minutes, a span in which they enjoyed three power plays, including a two-man advantage over...
James' enormous output owed something to both his energy and his generous life span; he reviewed regularly for 51 years, and was able to comment on a new novel by Charles Dickens (Our Mutual Friend) in 1865 and a posthumous collection of letters by Rupert Brooke in 1916. Also, his career happened to coincide with an expanding market for his skills. Literacy on both sides of the Atlantic was spreading, and new publications in the U.S. and England rushed into life to meet the demand for reading matter. James profited from this development, but he also, with characteristic hedging, deplored...
...shallow personality contest. It had a maddeningly evasive quality about it. It was as if television news, with its gift for dramatic fragments of reality, made Dada arrangements of each day's history. The rush of images seemed to give the entire political process a ruinously short attention span. As the English poet George Meredith once prayed, "More brain, O Lord, more brain...
...within what seems a short span of time, Swann must plead for Odette's affections. He pursues her as the rejects him in favor of the wealthy bourgeoise, Madame Verdurin (Marie-Christine Barrault). In desperation, Swann searches Odette's room for elusive voices. He torments himself with details of her lesbian attachments. Foreboding music adds to the tension. Swann's frustrations build to such a pitch that a crash seems inevitable...
...scenes from Sam's imaginary film classics. He keeps the conflict from becoming one-sided by displaying Sam's abrupt charms and convincing manifestations of primitive genius: a ruthless urge to simplify, instantaneous judgment about character, a capacity for total absorption coupled with the short attention span of a child. Sam lives, with seeming entitlement, outside the rules...