Will television not crunch and clutter the final shot — a man half-slumped on a bench, a woman standing next to him, and the menace of Mt. Etna in the distance — and thus deprive you of its serene and spacious despair?
The Dutch publisher VNU, whose magazines include Billboard and The Hollywood Reporter, cut its earnings forecast for the year in half and said first-half profit slumped to 75.5 million euros ($69.2 million), compared with 92.5 million euros ($84.8 million) a year ago.
Smith died at the scene, slumped half in and half out of the front seat of his car.
The latest victim was Mike Pelfrey, who is working out of a second-half slump.
Alderson said the second-half slump this season had "more to do with the players than it does with the manager or the coaching staff".
PHOENIX — R. A. Dickey in recent weeks had likened his second-half slump to a storm, a natural occurrence that he simply needed to wait out and endure.
Pressing so intensely early on inevitably results in a second-half slump, however, and Spurs did not cope particularly well after the break.
COPING WITH A SLUMP In discussing the second-half slump of shortstop José Reyes, Willie Randolph compared Reyes to a boxer who is backed into the ropes and has to learn to escape.
His first-half slump last season tore at Posada, and after he escaped from its throes, he said, he learned "to have more patience with myself, to have a little bit more fun instead of being so hard on myself".
A few weeks ago, with the Indians tangled in the throes of a second-half slump that threatened to destroy their promising 2007, Sabathia, the club's All-Star left-hander and Cy Young contender, made a bold prediction.
