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Horner, whose size and moves make him a kind of Ivy League Fred Biletnekoph, hauled in the Brown aerial and snuck out of bounds with one tick left on the Stadium clock...
...mile less than the Belmont Stakes) demands the hot speed that is the first hallmark of the breed. A topflight field hurtling around Pimlico's tight turns leaves no margin for error by a jockey: fail to find position by a few feet, miscalculate the pace by a tick of the clock, and the winner streaks to the wire before ground can be made...
...every meeting with a list of key questions, topics, problems, all in tight logical sequence. Andy Young recalls occasions when Vance has reached him at a party. "I'll pick up the phone and Cy will say, 'Andy, just a couple of points.' And, man, there they'll come?tick, tick, tick; one, two, three." Aides tell of meetings that Vance holds with CIA Director Stansfield Turner, who has a similar habit. "The two of them will checklist you into stupefaction," says one observer...
Princeton's freshman eight made it a clean sweep, roaring (or is it rowing?) to a 28-second win over Cornell. Radcliffe's rookie entry finished one tick behind the women from Ithaca...
...grasp of gesture, expression and character. A drawing like Saskia 's Lying-in Room evokes, in the space between the shadowed head of Rembrandt's pregnant wife and the sewing hands of her nurse, a domestic silence so intense that one can almost hear the tick of cooling embers in the grate. Once again the Morgan Library, eschewing the theatrics with which other museums are apt to present their loan shows, has come up with an exhibition of instructively high quality...