The band surprised early audiences accustomed to the generally shambling, lo-fi and collage-like quality of the records with their energetic live show, featuring Pollard's homegrown rock theatrics ( consisting of karate-kicks, leaps, and Roger Daltrey-inspired mic-twirling ), Mitch Mitchell's windmilling and chain smoking, sometime bassist Greg Demos ' striped pants, a never-ending barrage of tunes that all seemed to clock in under 90 seconds, and prodigious alcohol consumption all around.

In the 1989 edition of the Tour de France eventual winner Greg LeMond made up a 50-second deficit to runner-up Laurent Fignon in the final stage individual time trial to win the race by 8 seconds, the smallest margin ever.

They were first brought into the time trialling public eye in the 1989 Tour de France when Greg Lemond overcame a 50-second deficit in the final day's time trial to win the Tour by 8 seconds from Frenchman Laurent Fignon.

to go, Johnson held off Kyle Busch by almost 5 seconds and Greg Biffle on the last lap and tied Jeff Gordon's record with his fourth Brickyard 400 victory.

In 2005, Smith appeared in the comedy-drama film Kids in America, which had a regional release in the U. S. During the film, Smith shared the longest on-screen kiss with Stephanie Sherrin, timed at 5 minutes 57 seconds. He also played in Zenon ( Girl of the 21st century ) as Greg.

Six seconds later, Greg Biffle slid in Purvis's oil and plowed into the car, causing Purvis severe head trauma.

He was second in the stage, 24 seconds behind an impressive Greg LeMond.

Crowe said, " The timekeeper smacked the mat with his hand toward the end of the fight to indicate ten seconds were left, and that's when I went after Greg with one last flurry.

In this tournament, Kerr's first opponent was Greg Stott whom he defeated in 0: 17 seconds from the opening of the fight, winning by way of knockout with a knee to his opponent's head.

Jimmie Johnson was eliminated on Lap 127 when a tire blew and he crashed into Turn Three at Homestead-Miami Speedway, Carl Edwards led the most laps, and Greg Biffle won the race by. 017 seconds over teammate Mark Martin leading a top four Roush Racing sweep, the team's third podium sweep ( top three ) in eleven races, but when Tony Stewart crossed the finish line in 15th place, he clinched the 2005 NEXTEL Cup championship.

The first fight, between Boston's Steve Kasper and the Stars ' Greg Smith, broke out seven seconds into the game.

Thus made invisible, he appears to have entered the building as Clark Kent and exited seconds later as Superman.

In this way, decisions made by the original designers of ephemeris time influenced the length of today's standard SI second, and in turn, this has a continuing influence on the number of leap seconds which have been needed for insertion into current broadcast time scales, to keep them approximately in step with mean solar time.

Other good examples of this technique for eliminating several yards of waste space and a few seconds of waste time can be seen in Ralph Ince's films, particularly The Right Girl ( 1915 ), and by 1919 it was widely diffused in American films, but not in those made in Europe.

* Diples, a Christmas and wedding delicacy, made of paper-thin, sheet-like dough which is cut in large squares and dipped in a swirling fashion in a pot of hot olive oil for a few seconds.

If it takes 1. 99 seconds, it is or can be made into, a real-time DSP process.

With 16 seconds left in the game, Bills kicker Steve Christie made what seemed to be the game-winning 41-yard field goal to give his team the lead, 16 – 15.

* May 22 – An earthquake lasting 20 seconds destroys most of Bingöl, Turkey – more than 1, 000 are killed, 10, 000 made homeless.

This flight made three revolutions of the Earth and lasted for 4 hours, 52 minutes and 31 seconds.

These are made to order ( like their subs ) and heated for 85 seconds.

At the end of 60 seconds, the champion was given a choice to quit with the money they had won or risk it all on an open-ended double-or-nothing question, with the category given to the champion before they made the decision.

On many of his appearances on the show, Willis stages elaborate jokes, such as wearing a day-glo orange suit in honor of the Central Park gates, having one side of his face made up with simulated buckshot wounds after the Harry Whittington shooting, or trying to break a record ( parody of David Blaine ) of staying underwater for only twenty seconds.

" He cites a study that calculated the average shot length of Annie Hall to be 14. 5 seconds, while other films made in 1977 had an average shot length of 4 – 7 seconds.

CBC director George Retzlaff made a kinescope recording of a goal, and replayed it to the television audience seconds later.

In Game 5 The Spurs were down by three 95 – 92 with 9 seconds left Manu Ginobili made a three to tie the game, but the referees reviewed it and counted it as a two.

In Game 5, Suns guard / forward Raja Bell made a key 3-pointer with 1. 1 seconds left in the first overtime to send the game into a second overtime.

In 1824, the British Parliament made Kater's measurement of the seconds pendulum the official standard of length for defining the yard.

4, 000 away fans made the 300 mile journey to the Riverside Stadium and the celebrations started early, when Sharp netted after just 46 seconds after a square pass played unselfishly by Lambert was tapped home.

Eleven days later, the inventor made another flight of ten seconds.

There is no known film record of Adele performing ( aside from a clip lasting a few seconds ), but she made eight audio recordings, all duets with Fred.

His days as a world champion didn't last long, however, and when he made his first trip outside his homeland for a fight, he lost his crown to Robinson by a tenth-round TKO with eight seconds left in the round at the Polo Grounds in New York on 12 September 1951.

A second attempt was made three minutes later, but, 40 seconds into the procedure, this too was called off before the plane got off the ground.

In the event, it was generally well-observed, but a small number of supporters made whistles and cat-calls and the referee cut the silence short after less than 30 seconds.

On 25 June he made a flight lasting 15 minutes and 30 seconds, his longest to date, and the following day increased this personal record to over 36 minutes.

Casey heard the click of the distant receiver before he could open his mouth, and it took him no more than three seconds to make his decision.

Some of the oldest such data is the Bereitschaftspotential or " readiness potential " in which electrical activity related to voluntary actions can be recorded up to two seconds before the subject is aware of making a decision to perform the action.

This investigation may last anywhere upwards of ten seconds, until the velvet worm makes a decision on whether to attack it — or until it disturbs the prey and flees.

Howard Davis Jr proved more of a challenge — he led Rosario on all scorecards with ten seconds remaining in the bout, but was dropped by Rosario and lost a split decision.

De La Hoya dominated the fight, winning almost every round and knocking Castillejo ( 51 – 4 ) down with ten seconds to go to win the title by a unanimous decision.

Chacon-Limón IV became one of the fights of the year and the decade, according to such magazines as The Ring, KO Magazine, and Ring En Español, and Chacon recovered from knockdowns suffered in rounds three and 10 to drop Limón in the closing seconds of round 15, and secure a close decision and his second world title in Sacramento.

A 2006 study in Edinburgh, Scotland showed that 45 % of the women participants in a speed-dating event and 22 % of the men had come to a decision within the first 30 seconds.

With nine minutes and 29 seconds remaining in the game and Winnipeg holding onto a 28 – 27 lead, officials made the unprecedented decision to suspend play until the next day.

After three non-title wins, including one over Jean Josselin, he faced Hedgemon Lewis on December 14, retaining the world title with a decision in 15 rounds, but Nápoles ' training habits were suffering ; he was alleged to be coming into the gym stinking of alcohol with an attitude torwards his seconds.

Therefore the decision was made to record all discs conventionally from outside-in, and to limit the first three programs in any one hour to 14 minutes and 30 seconds in length and the last program in the hour to twelve minutes and thirty seconds, leaving the rest of the time to silence.

Since March of 1988, as commentator he has called some of boxing's most famous moments, such as Thunder Meets Lightning, when Julio César Chávez saved himself from a decision defeat by knocking out Meldrick Taylor ( who was leading the fight on two of the three official scorecards ) with only two seconds to go in the last round ; James " Buster " Douglas's upset of Mike Tyson for the World Heavyweight championship.

This decision was hardly reached, in fact I suppose it was not over two or three seconds from the time the first taps were heard, until two big thumps, which gave the machine a terrible shaking, showed that something had broken.

A bout can end by knockout ( KO ), if a fighter is unable to get up within ten seconds after being knocked down ; by technical knockout ( TKO ), if a fighter is knocked down three times in one round ; or by decision, if the bout lasts three full rounds without a clear winner.

She won a decision over Tami Hendrickson of Seattle in the quarter-final by 50-39, then went on to stop Shanie Keelean of Chicago within 46 seconds of the first round.

With Mansell only 13th in Friday Qualifying and Riccardo Patrese 30th and seemingly set to fail to qualify, some 14 seconds from 26th place, Williams ' designer Patrick Head made a snap decision to dump the system until the end of the season.

On September 24, 2004, Mahfood, sporting her traditional trademark purple Mohawk hairstyle, was dropped twice in the final seconds as she dropped a ten round unanimous decision to Leatitia Robinson in Atlanta, Georgia.

The quarterback throws towards a receiver, making the decision as to which one within 2-2. 5 seconds of getting the snap.

Gomi won the fight by unanimous decision, securing an armbar in the waning seconds of the fight.

After two easy repechage wins against Tasman and Taranaki, the Stags played the Taniwha and with seconds to go the Stags were behind by seven when the Northland team were awarded a penalty and made the decision to kick the ball out to end the game.

A bull rider, a fellow competitor, or a judge may request a replay review by filing a protest to the replay official within 30 seconds of any decision.

NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue then called to override the referee's decision, sending the players back onto the field, where the Jaguars ran out the last seconds under a hail of debris.

Castillejo lasted the twelve round distance with De La Hoya, but was sent to the canvas seconds before the fight ended, and lost a unanimous twelve round decision and his world title, on June 23, 2001.