Word: slow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beneath vast, shifting vistas of fleecy clouds, the softly rolling land is marvelously fat and fertile, husbanded by generations of farmers to support plump cattle and rich green wheat. It is the Stour River Valley, a place of running streams and slow canals northeast of London, and almost from the moment he was born in 1776 John Constable cherished it with an early and sure instinct. "The sound of water escaping from milldams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts and brickwork-I love such things," he wrote. "I had often thought of pictures of them before I ever touched...
Sluggish profits are certain to affect salary levels, dividends and stock market prices. Eventually, falling profits would hit employment. It is widely agreed that the economy must be throttled back. The trick now is to run the engine so that it can speed up as swiftly as it can slow down...
...almost assured by the vivid contrast between the mighty West German economy and the inflationprone French economy-menaced by excessive wage demands while handicapped by obsolete plants and an unfortunately anemic capital market. German Economics Minister Karl Schiller had hoped that his country's real growth would slow to 4.5% this year, but has lately conceded that it will run about...
...Bead Game also has virtually mastered the art of switching from tempo to tempo. On "Slipping," the song begins with Jimmy Hodder singing in a slow 4/4, which then becomes a hard hammering instrumental break in 6/8 followed by a simmering and brilliant guitar bridge in fast 4/4 which leads back into the slow 4/4 with the vocalist coming back in. A few rounds later Hodder beings singing in the 6/8 tempo and the slower beat becomes an arena for long and reflective improvisational playing, completing the circle perfectly. Such fully realized, very abrupt changes, occur again and again...
...drivers who (as you remember from my last story in this magazine) are always smiling and sending out god vibrations, to, among other people, the Beach Boys. now what it's most important to understand about that argument is that it never really existed (ha! the end came on slow and fooled...