Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that ironically succeeds most when Murphy exaggerates and demonizes the very character that launched him to stardom--the brash, vulgar fast-talker able to one-up anyone. But returning constantly to the lower end of the roller coaster -- bathroom humor and insipid romance -- the movie acquires a wearying, frustrating rhythm of unbearable idiocy alternating with high-quality hilarity...
PLEADED GUILTY. WILSON PICKETT, 55, rhythm-and-blues singer; to being under the influence of cocaine; in Hackensack, New Jersey. Police arrested Pickett in April after a yelling, bleeding woman ran from his home...
...cloudless sky. They unfold in slow motion, a tempo ill suited to daily headlines and TV-news reports. Covering one is like sitting around watching the grass not grow. In The Grapes of Wrath, his 1939 novel about the Depression-era Dust Bowl, John Steinbeck captured the idling, hallucinatory rhythm of drought: "The brown lines on the corn leaves widened and moved in on the central ribs. The weeds frayed and edged back toward their roots. The air was thin and the sky more pale; and every day the earth paled...
...pale, scrubbed blue sky; a pier running into the blueness on the upper left, reaching (it seems) toward a white scarf of smoke coming from a chimney in the right foreground and binding the whole space between; below, the faceted blocks of houses and the lovely staccato rhythm of chimneys. It radiates peace and balance and, above all, easefulness--the sense of being united with a landscape of ancestral memory...
...found that I was on a little bit of a faster rhythm, and I was impatient when things went slowly or inefficiently," Nordell says, although he admits the slower pace of thought and conversation could be appealing. "It was wonderful to gradually get back into casual talking and thinking...