Word: midways
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...doubt but that the intentions are good. But intentions alone don't make a good story. Happily Richmond has done one or two interesting things that distract from the conspicuous banality of his prose. Midway through his narrative he includes an account of Joshua Aarons, a Victorian renegade who joined the Gold Rush, decamped to the Indians, and burrowed into a cave, leaving his diary of reminiscences and prophecies as testimony to the historicity of counterculture. Historicity or no, Joshua Aarons lends the author an opportunity to affect a Victorian prose style, demonstrating that Richmond can in fact do more...
While Gill was explaining, midway through his speech, that chauvinists should greet each other on the street "with a Charles Atlas muscle-flexing salute," two freshman women dressed in coats and ties and smoking cigars crashed the dinner...
Steven Bruch does much more. He admirably achieves the requisite pain and humor in his exceedingly difficult role as Ionesco's anti-hero, Beranger, though his peak intensity arrives too soon. Midway through the play, he has taken the pitch about as high as he can and after that he stagnates, transforming humorous lines into wails of sadness...
Paced by 20-point performances by Phil Hankinson, Ron Haigler and John Beecroft, Ivy champion Pennsylvania broke open a tight game midway through the second half to upend the Crimson cagers, 86-75, at the Palestra last night...
...Elis hardly belonged on the same ice with Harvard. The Crimson held a wide edge in stickhandling and speed, controlling the puck most of the game. Yale's only bright spot was the play of goalie Ken McKenzie, who made 20 saves before being pulled midway through the second period with Harvard leading...