Word: rhythms
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...compelling; its characters are locked in a mindset that accepts the status quo, no matter how awful it gets. They never think of forming a community to rebel against the government guards, and only belatedly find a way to escape. Meirelles' camera style is plenty jazzy, with an agitated rhythm and the desaturated color scheme from Children of God (another dystopian English-language social parable from a Latin American director); but his characters are as flaccid as those in so many Euro-films we've seen at Cannes over the years. Their feet glued to the floor, they stand...
Obama, meanwhile, had junked his starchy speaking style in favor of something that helped him shore up his base. Dan Shomon, his campaign manager against Rush, believes Obama learned the art of public speaking at the scores of black churches he visited in 2000, absorbing the rhythm and flourishes of pastors and watching how their congregations reacted. David Mendell notes in his biography of Obama how the candidate would "drop into a Southern drawl, pepper his prose with a neatly placed 'ya'll' and call up various black colloquialisms." He rarely missed a chance to speak at Sunday services...
...effortlessly executed turn sequence. The other group performances, however, did not measure up to the high standards set by the pas de trois. Jennifer S. Love ’09 gave a truly insipid performance of the “Russian Variation,” lacking flair and rhythm on the stage. “Neopolitan Dance” and “Swan Pas de Trois” were both charming but often sloppy and uneven.“Dance of the Four Cygnettes” was particularly disappointing. Though one of the most difficult pieces...
...soon as we hit the settle, Princeton gained a quick lead and those two boats just shot out in front,” sophomore coxswain Dexter Louie said. “The issue was that right from the get-go we were just not able to establish our rhythm. We couldn’t get our blades in the water and get a good pop and send...
...other boats, rowing with a regular rhythm, were able to walk up and away from the Harvard crew. Yale won the race with a time of 5:55.7, just ahead of Princeton, who finished in 5:56.9. The Crimson came in third...