Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...M.F.A.'s recent authoritarian measures, Socialist Party Leader Mário Soares and officials of the Popular Democrats prohibited their party colleagues from participating in the new government. Denouncing the Directory as unconstitutional, Soares called for a broadly representative "government of national salvation," warning last week that "the rhythm of our revolution is too fast...
...contextual vacuum for further resonance. Although Hemingway's prose had the descriptive abilities needed to maintain drama throughout the flashing around, on stage this doesn't work--when one Hemingway perches somewhere, says something, and passes the baton to the next while the rest pantomime, the rhythm is often ruptured mercilessly. It's as though the writer had trouble finding excuses for people to talk, since they so often have to begin from scratch. So he's forced to make them all loud-mouthed fools, blabbering their life secrets from separate pedestals. James Maxwell's boyish reporter, then...
...Edward Patten-walk, run, shuffle, tap in staccato choreographic counterpoint. With a current NBC-TV summer variety series plus a pair of Grammy awards and a platinum and two gold albums in the past two years, Gladys Knight and the Pips are considered this year's smash rhythm and blues...
They are no overnight sensation, however. The grueling roadhouse gigs, dusty motel rooms and endless turnpike tours that attend the birth of almost every pop-music career merge in the show-business lexicon under the heading "dues paying." Hardly anyone escapes, least of all black rhythm and blues performers. This Georgia-born quartet spent nearly two decades in obscurity before finally scuffling into the big time...
...much free time as he wanted practicing the pops. After she and Stanley Dwight were divorced she permitted Reg to take a job playing piano at a nearby hotel pub. At 17 he quit school just two weeks before final exams and joined a decent band called Bluesology, a rhythm-and-blues outfit. From 1964 to 1967 he was on perpetual tour. Typical gigs were at the South Harrow British Legion and the Nottingham Rowing Club...