Then, rather than rushing straight at the art, I want to read about it.
How to Live is a superb, spirited introduction to the master, and should have its readers rushing straight to the essays themselves.
But instead of rushing straight to the TKTS booth that, in my New York savvy, I knew had recently opened, I stretched out the pleasure of anticipation, stopping at a pizza joint on the northwest corner of 42nd and Seventh.
Douglas is known for rushing straight up the field and Giants tackle Lomas Brown frequently used his strength against him, letting Douglas's momentum carry him wide while the Giants simply ran inside of him.
Still, Pitt seems to have gained speed as well as pounds of extra muscle for this role, and when his Achilles crouches in an angular position, like a figure on a Greek vase, or leaps into action, rushing straight at his opponent and then spinning and slashing, he's extraordinary — a man who has developed a lightning style of combat never before seen on earth.
This "moving photography" was what prompted Maxim Gorky, who saw the Lumière brothers' films at a Russian fair in 1896, to bemoan the "kingdom of shadows" — a mass of people, animals, and vehicles — rushing "straight at you," approaching the edge of the screen, then vanishing "somewhere beyond it".
