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...there were ten minutes left and this was a hockey game. Mentum returned to his accustomed location, everyone else held his/her collective breath and then five minutes down the blue line the Crimson got a break...
...stirred much excitement. As Clara, Tcherkassky danced with the dewy radiance of a young Fonteyn. Well-matched physically and in spirit, Tcherkassky and Baryshnikov are natural partners. Their approach to dance is one of elegance and simplicity. Both are exceptionally musical and seem at times to dance on one breath...
...into the woods. Now we are sprinting, leaping over logs, crashing through small brush, legs and arms flailing. We try to pace a 200-meter leg but fail, losing the count at the bottom of a hill where we have plunged into unexpected muddy ooze. We stand, gasping for breath, shin deep in the freezing mud, tracing our path on the map. We are on the track. We pull our feet out of the mire, skirt the swamp and climb the hill...
Siegel was one of the 50,000 or more Americans who suffer from a little-known, and often misdiagnosed disorder called sleep apnea (literally, want of breath). During a single night, they may wake up 400 or 500 times. These interruptions are so brief, only a few seconds or so, that apnea victims are usually totally unaware of them and at a loss to explain the morning-after blahs. When these patients take their complaint to a doctor, they usually get no help. The problem is that the physician sees the patient in the daytime...
Just after Shout at the Devil has got started and takes a second to catch its breath, the audience has already been treated to an elephant hunt in search of ivory, a bushwhacking, a crocodile attack, a ship ramming, several pratfalls and-this being colonial Africa and all-several glimpses of bare-breasted native women. Lee Marvin, playing a bibulous adventurer named Flynn, and Roger Moore, appearing as Sebastian Oldsmith, an entirely too credulous old Eton boy fallen on hard times, alternately flail away at and consort with each other in a variety of cockeyed attempts to earn a dishonest...