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What this adds up to is that refs must keep the action on a tight leash without intruding on the game's natural tempo with staccato bursts of foul calling. "I've yet to come against a coach who wants a lot of shoving, banging, or grabbing," says Hannon. "You just set your mind that you're going to keep on blowing your game, because you don't want a fight. Next day the fight's in all the papers and the first thing everyone does is look who worked the game...
...strip of earth between huts of corrugated tin. That he had been beaten to death in a brawl with a (male) prostitute, a seventeen-year-old streetwalker. Monday Rome was in an uproar. L'Unita, the paper of the Paritito Communista Italiano (PCI) glorified Pasolini the poet; "Il Tempo," the paper of the Movimento Sociale Italiano (MSI, the neofascist party) vilified Pasolini the homosexual. Posters proclaimed the martyrdom of a radical poet...
...China, even in recent years, were often ushered into Chou's presence after midnight, finding him tireless and perpetually alert in conversations that lasted until daybreak. His wife Teng Yingchao, a prominent revolutionary in her own right, admitted that she was unable to persuade him to slow his exhausting tempo even after his declining health forced him to delegate some responsibility to his heir apparent, Vice Premier Teng...
Harvard managed to play a controlled, patient brand of basketball through most of the contest, only rarely falling into the run-and-gun tempo that seemed to signal that the Terriers were ready to go on another streak. Nevertheless, Harvard's ball control was amazing. With Glenn Fine deftly directing the attack, the Crimson turned the ball over only six times. The excellent performance was just too much for BU to match...
...language of the film speaks for itself. Its words belong to the man on the street; its tempo gives the movie the balanced, quick paced, one-liner feeling of a fight. The characters in Rockycan't ever say exactly what they mean--they choke their subject or miss the mark, shooting straight from the hip--but in their very inarticulateness their funny, everyday struggles are revealed...