Word: tempo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...runs about three hours--and Sellars' habit of freezing the scene at key moments doesn't speed it up any. But the Chopin behind it all transports the audience into the contemplative melancholy of the play itself--leaving audience, actors and playwright running at the same speed. The tempo lags only in the final act. With bare stage, static blocking and house lights turned up, the staging is faithful to Chekhov's sense of desolation, but also somewhat trying to an audience at the end of a three-hour haul...
Harvard scored first to open the game and really controlled the tempo of play throughout the first half. The Crimson maintained a three-to-seven-point lead for about 13 minutes until Fleming added seven consecutive marks to the Crimson tally, thus boosting the margin...
With captain Glenn Fine controlling the ball for the Crimson and setting the tempo, Harvard built an eight-point lead midway through the first stanza. The Bruins' Chuck Mack sunk several long-distance jumpers to keep the offensively impotent Brown five in the ball game. Mack's effort, along with 88 per cent team accuracy from the charity stripe brought the Bruins to within three, 33-30, as the opening period came to a close...
Even the ever-optimistic McLaughlin has expressed doubt about how well Harvard can do without a dominant big man. Dave Coatsworth has done an admirable job in the middle, but he's a freshman and not a very tall one at that. He can't control the tempo...
...Hooft again a few seconds later, scoring on one of his many driving layups along the baseline to momentarily make the game interesting. But when the margin reached 68-56, Perry went to work controlling the tempo of the game...