Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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OLIVIER PRESERVES the classical rhythm, the curling-up pitch at the end of a line and the elongation of select syllables until they detonate, and he fuses all this with bravura good-humor. Compare this portrait to his massive, thick-featured, iron-rimmed Nazi dentist in the Marathon Man and you've good example of why people label this great man the most versatile actor who's ever lived. Olivier is on-screen more than anyone else in the The Boys from Brazil, and he hasn't had a movie role this large since Sleuth...
Wylie, who teaches the popular Soc Sci 160, "Nonverbal Communication," said "we communicate with everything at our disposal," including sounds other than voice, gestures and the rhythm of our speech...
Wylie criticized present foreign language teaching, saying "We've stressed pronunciation, spelling and grammar. It would be better to teach rhythm" of the language, he added...
Students trained in a language's rhythm "won't be boring and they'll get across" their meaning, he said...
...album's best ballad comes from the music of a Ronstadt favorite, J.D. Souther, whose songs have consistently strengthened her albums. This time she picks a slow love song, backed by a sweet pedal steel. "White Rhythm and Blues" ends side one with a sweet, sentimental tone, Ronstadt's voice enveloping the soft electric piano of Dan Grolnick, whose keyboard skills are heavily used in this album...