Many wrote off War Emblem's upset victory in the Kentucky Derby as a fluke because he was able to make the pace unchallenged while setting slow fractions.
Friday nights were lovely: a formal table setting, slow sips of the sickly sweet Manischewitz wine, eating challah 'til it hurt, nibbling on roast chicken and cranberry sauce and the anticipation of what my mom would give us for dessert.
The topping traps in a little of the steam and protects the surface from the direct heat of the oven, meaning it sets slower – and so rises more – than it might otherwise.
She's up to her old tricks again this time around, setting slow-moving pearly liquids swirling to the ambient sonic textures of German composer Clemens Haas.
Swimming in the sea, or in a lake, watching the colors on the reeds near the shore as the sun sets, slows us down; calms us, invites us not to rush into the next thing.
In fact, in about half of the six Vibratomes that we have purchased over the years, we needed to adjust the machines so that the slowest forward motion speed was substantially slower than the factory set slowest speed.
