He also lobbied, less successfully, for a let-up in overall publication pressure but an increased emphasis on a few first-class papers, by having promotion committees only consider a list of 12 key papers.
Under Dominic Cooke's direction, she sustains this, without let-up, for an hour and a half, recounting, in a voice that is now soft, now husky, now cracked, always perfectly pitched, the process of her conversion from privileged, self-preoccupied westerner to privileged, consciousness-of-social-and-political-injustice-raised westerner.
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I've made the press and fans so used to me always scoring a lot of goals that as soon as I let up for a second, well the journalists don't cry but they begin writing all sorts of stuff.
I was struck afresh when last rereading The Eagle how – without the tension letting up for a second – she allows a good chunk of the centre of the book to be occupied by the sensations and consequences of Marcus's injury, before the true adventure, the quest to find the eagle, can begin.
And it did not let up for a pulsating 90 minutes which threatened a United rout as they established a three-goal lead by half-time, but ended with Sir Alex Ferguson's side hanging on as City tried to complete the most unlikely comeback.
Armed in a sharp suit, Dillon closed out the Worldwide stage with an hour set of adrenline-soaked beats that don't let up for a single second.
Jomo is relentless, a barrage of synth sounds seguing into a drone that doesn't let up for four and half minutes, although it seems longer: the repetition seems to suspend time.
The film's a slow burner, but once we get to the fireworks, it doesn't let up for a moment.
