Word: midways
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Suffice it to say that one of the twins (the other?) turns out to be monstrously, homicidally evil, and that Tryon and Mulligan pull off a neat plot twist midway in the action. It's diverting enough, but still essentially a trick. What is badly needed is some reason for the twins' rampaging villainy, some suggestion of why they should be so keen on frightening old ladies to death and carrying human fingers around in a Prince Albert tobacco can. Instead, all we get is a sleight-of-hand...
...works is a theme written in October 1968, during his senior year, in high school. Entitled "Guitar," it begins by describing some weekly guitar lessons taken by a boy named Paul. The boy's instructor is George, who teaches at a Milwaukee music school at "twentieth and Greenfield." Midway, the theme abruptly turns to reflections on "Paul's" home life...
Bobby Orr made sure of that last night with a power-play blast early in the first period at New York's Madison Square Garden, and after the Bruins held off a two-man New York Ranger advantage midway through the game, Boston's superiority was never seriously challenged...
Then, the unbeaten Harvard JV led Navy all the way down the 2,000-meter course to take a length victory, and a sweep was a distinct possibility. But Penn jumped the Harvard varsity at the start, leading by a half-length for a time. Then, at the midway point, the Crimson, stroked by Gene LaBarre, caught the Quakers and had begun to pass when the Penn shell filled with water...
...assembled the strongest air and sea armada in Indochina since the war last peaked in 1968. More than 150 fresh planes were rushed to the theater from bases as far away as North Carolina; the B-52 fleet has been nearly doubled since the North Vietnamese offensive began. When Midway and Saratoga join the four aircraft carriers now on station off North Viet Nam, the U.S. and the South Vietnamese will have 150 ships and over 1,000 aircraft, equipped with some of the most sophisticated weaponry in the history of warfare to use against a North Vietnamese force...