Word: rhythmical
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...Producers' Showcase, in addition to an excellent, if somewhat dated, production of State of the Union, Sponsor Ford devised a pair of inventive commercials. The first, featuring an actor and a model, managed a provocative, if somewhat cloying, combination of Lincoln and sex; the second used the rhythmic movements of 18 actors (as many as were employed in the cast of State of the Union) to create a mock political parade and rally that ended up as a plug for Ford cars. Adman Blake Johnson of Kenyon & Eckhardt reported that the commercials, which were colorcast, cost five times more...
...performer. But the New York Times's Olin Downes published a rave. "The pianist who adequately performs the part needs endless strength, swiftness and must be something of a cyclone at the keyboard . . . Mr. Scarpini fulfilled the requirements ... a pianist of prodigious capacities . . . whirlwind virtuosity and rhythmic drive." The rest of the press agreed...
...result is as gratifying for the listener as it must be for the players. A new sensitivity to intonation is one of the most outstanding-and welcome-changes Mr. Poto has brought. And from the opening of Handel's Water Music suite, his insight into rhythmic details and emphasis of interplay between instruments testified to rare artistic insight...
...fire. Each helped himself to the peyote buttons that were passed around, and from time to time someone lit up a ceremonial cigarette (Bull Durham tobacco and corn husks). Until 7:30 the next morning, the big tepee was filled with prayers and gentle chants, and the soft rhythmic beat of the gourd. There was a "Fire Chief" to tend the fire, a "Cedar Chief" to sprinkle powdered cedar into the flames, and a "Drummer Chief" to keep up the music. The ritual varies slightly from tribe to tribe; sometimes, as in a ceremony last month near Window Rock, Ariz...
...exception of William Hess' tenor; and its strained quality was probably attributable to a cold. Both Mr. Hess and mezzo-soprano Eunice Alberts mastered vocal parts of exceptional difficulty. The modulations of mood and expressiveness which Miss Alberts achieved were striking. The precision and suppleness of conductor Spies' rhythmic impulse and the virtuosity of the instrumentalists resulted in a vital reading of the Septet...