Word: paces
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...products to hit the market from IBM, Dragon Systems and Kurzweil all support continuous voice recognition, which means you can speak into the computer without pausing at a normal rate. You can't talk as fast as the guy from the Micro Machines commercial, of course, but a conversational pace is fine...
After such a physically and emotionally draining movement, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and its conductor alike seemed to rejoice in the relaxed, waltz-like pace of the gargantuan Scherzo. The introduction of bells and intricate spiccato/pizzicato sections augmented the diversity of texture in the third movement, whose screaming finale prompted Gatti to take a handkerchief from his packet and wipe his cheek before proceeding into the final two movements of Mahler's fifth symphony...
...with lines forming at brokers' offices and the blistering pace of buying still accelerating at the closing bell, every buy order was a vote to the contrary...
Although "Sex Without Love" tries hard not to be moralistic about teenage sex, the entire effort, in its tone, pace and solemnity, reminds the audience of a "Life...what a beautiful choice" commercial. Missing is the dubious examination of loss of innocence--in its joy and its amorality--which the poem itself would more aptly convey...
...mind-boggling to observe Macbeth making the great speech of Scene V.v funny. Examining his fingernails, eyebrows raised in annoyance, Colapinto draws out the vowels as he declaims, with the injured air of one making a justified complaint, "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow/ Creeps in this petty pace from day to day / To the last syllable of recorded time..." Whatever the intent behind this kind of performance may be, its effect is to make Macbeth appear to us not as a "tragic figure" slowly cracking under his weight of guilt, grief and paranoia, but rather as somebody enjoying a private...