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...needs. In times of uncertainty they offer apparent objectivity and precision. On otherwise slow news days they track the excitement of public opinion on the march. ("Watch out! Here comes 'Big Mo.' ") They promise a window into private thoughts without the inconvenience of intimacy. And, in a world of ten-second sound bites and shrinking news stories, poll-derived graphics can be wonderfully concise...
...Graphics. The cable channel's high-spirited ten-second promotional spots, based on a logo created by Manhattan Design, are among the edgiest, unruliest and altogether most intriguing graphic images produced today...
Unlike sprints, where boats line up bow to bow and race for 2000 meters along a straight course with the first one across the finish line declared the winner, boats in each event in the Head start at ten-second intervals and race 5000 meters (about three miles) upstream from the down-stream edge of the Boston University boat house (in the Charles River Basin) to a point in the Metropolitan District Commission park near the Ramada Inn. Keeping track of the times and comparing them, a computer can then show who won the particular event...
...Crimson triumphs, Hackett's was the most heartening. Shaking off the virus that had shackled him the first two days, the irrepressible distance man seized the lead in the first lap of swimming's equivalent to the mile and gradually built up a ten-second victory margin...
...shakers. We soon learn: "Andrew Drake, despite his Anglicized name, was also a Ukranian, and a fanatic." Forsyth decides Bond-like gadgets also appear in delicious profusion, including a personal favorite, the "flash-bang-crash grenades," which blind anyone looking at them, blow out their eardrums, and "cause a ten-second paralysis." Just ten seconds...