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...dancing is suffused with mystery, poetry and madness--expressive of root emotions, generous yet often frightening in their nakedness." She points to Cunningham's use of the dancer's internal sense of rhythm, explaining that his practice of rehearsing a piece by timing it over and over with a stopwatch is far from mechanical, as is often charged...
Since the speed at which Zapruder's film was moving could be checked (18.3 frames a second), it served as a stopwatch on events. The presidential limousine was found to be traveling at only 11.2 m.p.h. In the film, Kennedy is seen to be waving to a sparse crowd when, unfortunately for later investigators, a large Stemmons Freeway sign blocks the view from Zapruder's camera (at frame 205). When the President emerges 1.09 seconds later (at frame 225), he is reaching for his throat and clearly has been hit. His head, all too graphically, is struck another...
...boats surged ahead, followed closely by the launch. Parker stood majestically in the bow, his white shirt flapping in the breeze, his chiseled profile silhouetted against the now blue sky. He held his head high and watched closely as the two boats sped forward glancing occasionally at the silver stopwatch he held in his hand...
Back to the Lab. Since he had no stopwatch either. Meriwether had no idea how fast he was until he began competing in local meets last summer. "No one was more surprised than I was," he says, when he ran successive 100-yd. dashes in 9.6, 9.5 and 9.4 sec. In Meriwether's first major meet, the National Invitational in College Park, Md., in January, a field of world-class sprinters got an even bigger surprise. He won the 60-yd. dash in 6 sec. flat, just one-tenth of a second off the world record, despite a characteristically...
...things." Despite his problems, however, Sadat is not likely to help the negotiations by placing them under the threat of a resumption of shooting. Israeli Premier Golda Meir, who wants an unlimited ceasefire, complained before Sadat's speech that "we can't conduct peace negotiations with a stopwatch in hand." Neither can Egypt. An extension of the truce to March 7 allows too short a time in which to accomplish results...