Word: rhythmically
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Tribune, which intends to focus almost exclusively on New York, learns how to please New Yorkers. "This is a lively city," says Conniff. "I hope that some of the beat and rhythmic style of the city gets into our paper...
...Negroes from Mississippi, where a fertile folk tradition of spirituals, ballads, work songs and field hollers nourishes the blues the way the rich soil of the Delta sprouts cotton. The result is that all the Chicago blues are shot through with the raw purity of emotion, the lyricism and rhythmic subtlety of the Mississippi country style. Now a whole generation of younger performers have added technical polish and a hard driving sound that reflects the pace and pressures of city life...
...sometimes in uncoordinated group flashing. Writing in Nature, Zoologist John Buck and his wife believe that the Asian male fireflies' synchronous flashing is actually a photic call that lures females to the trees for mass mating. Because the Asian undergrowth is so dense, the male insects use rhythmic beaconing in order to shine through and be seen by the females. In effect, the synchronous flashing becomes mass advertising...
...through a six-week cultural swing through Russia last week when the Soviets decided that he was just too culturally dangerous. Perhaps it was because Hines & Co. had been wowing S.R.O. audiences everywhere. In Kiev, 10,000 youngsters had packed the Sports Palace, and Hines stirred up a swirling, rhythmic turbulence that had the Russians snapping their fingers like Hollywood hippies...
Blonde on Blonde, taken as a whole, marks a retreat from experiment with language. The great successes it contains gain their power from hypnotic heavy rhythms against which any words would have to struggle, in a sort of "counterpoint," not from rhythmic or imagistic interest inherent in the word-phrases themselves. Thus the chorus of "Sad Eyed Lady...