Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bessie Jones, a spirituals singer, talks about the songs her slave grandfather used to sing in the cotton fields in Virginia. As her vibrant, mellow voice lifts into song ("I'm going to lay down my life for my Lord"), the young people clap their hands in rhythm...
There are substantial problems for Pelé and his sport to overcome. The game lacks the orchestrated tactics of football, the rapid-fire scoring of basketball and the internal rhythm of baseball. More important, it suffers from the fact that the majority of Americans do not comprehend and appreciate the game's nuances. But Americans are rapidly learning to appreciate Pelé. In his second game, the superstar drew a capacity crowd of 22,500 to New York City's bush-league Downing Stadium to see the Cosmos beat the Toronto Metros, 2-0. In Boston, at week...
...water, the director and his company waited out the vagaries of tide topside. "With all the planning we did," Spielberg recalls, "nobody thought much about the currents or anything at all about the waves." A strong current would cause equipment boats to drift away. Water color would change, the rhythm of the waves would fluctuate. "I could have shot the movie in the tank," Spielberg says, "or even in a protected lake somewhere, but it would not have looked the same...
...Flat (Henryk Szeryng, violin; Pierre Fournier, cello; Artur Rubinstein, piano; RCA; 2 LPs; $16.98). Corraling a collection of virtuosos to record chamber music is not always a good idea. Having spent years alone in the spotlight, too many of them lack the knack of bobbing and weaving in rhythm with other minds and hearts. Szeryng, Fournier and Rubinstein rank high among the successful exceptions to this individualistic rule. In these trios, each player retains his own particular musical fist yet manages to fit it into his neighbor's glove. In perfect harmony, they play as if they were giving...
...even less cause for the U.S. distributor's cutting 28 minutes from the original. Petri obviously intended the film to have a slightly frenetic quality and edited it accordingly, as if to duplicate the nerve-shredding tension of a day in the factory. The additional cutting makes the rhythm of the film even more ragged than it should...