Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three elements of sound, movement, and light that a flawed performance by any one would ruin the whole. And the dancers' execution, in the limited scope they have set themselves, is hard to fault. The attractiveness of these two dancers lies in their fine sense of timing, of rhythm, and in their gracefully controlled exuberance...
...Harlow and Sergio Modigliani (they are responsible, I suppose, both for the spots and the splendid slides) exhibits much the same winning qualities as does the dancing. The colors are lush, the patterns interesting, but success again depends on a very well-marked sense of timing and rhythm...
Both Herba and Coonradt have avoided the central pitfall of director's cinema, that of self-indulgence. Lady Jane, while maintaining a tenuous balance between two realities, one conventional and one dreamlike, remains always rigorously disciplined with careful attention paid to continuity and (truly superb) rhythm in its editing. Coonradt instantly establishes the premise, Jane's struggle to maintain a diffuse personality against her singularly insensitive room-mate and the other girls in her dorm, with an opening shot of Jane outside which surprisingly pulls back to reveal the other girls inside. Equally powerful in its economy is Jane...
Otis Redding was one of the better exponents of that exhilarating American blend of the blues, gospel and pop:soul music. In France he became recognized as a historic figure in rhythm and blues, and in Britain he was voted the top male singer of 1967. But at the time of his death at 26 in a plane crash last December, he had still to catch on big in his own country...
...three hours a day, five days a week, Peters has been throwing, working hard on his pitching rhythm. "I just can't get anything over. I've got to get the rhythm," he said. The 6-5, 210-pound righthander suffered a similar slump in the middle of last season when he lost to Princeton, Columbia, and Dartmouth, and he thinks he'll pull out of this one. "It's not an insurmountable problem," he said. Coach Norm Shepard agreed yesterday, "I don't see why he shouldn't pull...