Oregon showed that Lane Kiffin's U.S.C. program could dress up as an elite team for only so long, executing two punishing third-quarter touchdown drives to demoralize the crowd.
The paintings didn't exist yet, except in the potential form of concealed panels that shared a continuous surface of room-girdling handmade wallpaper: in effect, a single painting, more than fourteen feet high and more than a hundred and seventy-three feet long, executed in acrylic, oil, vinyl paint, silk-screen inks, charcoal, pastel, graphite, and sand.
He never goes for long without executing some nice writerly flourish — astronauts carrying their briefcase-shaped ventilators to the launch pad resemble "businessmen on their way to the future" — but a reader's ears are sometimes irritated by the sound of boilerplate clanging into place ("greatest tragedies... astonishing triumphs").
So it is debatable whether by excising that feature and pushing the country into conformity with international norms that have long rejected executing the retarded the court has made it harder or easier for death penalty opponents to move on to their larger targets, challenges to the overall fairness of the system and the continued existence of the death penalty itself.
"We're lucky to have investors with the rationale to think long term and execute long term, too," he said.
Long takes — some of which were three and four minutes long, and executed with a hand-held camera — meant that many of the sets would need to be complete rooms that could accommodate 360 degrees worth of shooting.
An instruction took four times as long to execute as accessing a word from memory, giving an instruction execution rate of about 700 per second.
The story is told with few words but strong images, shot in long, sinuously executed takes.
All game long Tampa Bay executed more confidently and expertly than the Raiders.
The Chilcot inquiry was becoming a satirical byword for taking farcically long to execute a task; but Sir John will surely go down in history for delivering the most comprehensively devastating verdict on any modern prime minister.
