Word: tempo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...emptive rejection, Egypt still intends to formally submit its West Bank and Gaza scheme to the U.S. later this month. With both Egyptian and Israeli plans then on the bargaining table (Jerusalem submitted a 26-point proposal last December), the Carter Administration hopes that a quickened tempo of negotiations might narrow the differences between the two sides. This was a theme stressed by Vice President Walter Mondale, who arrived in Israel last week on a four-day good-will visit in honor of the country's 30th anniversary. While publicly stressing the "solid and unshakeable commitment" linking...
...opposite direction: into free-form experimental jazz, which seems to flaunt its abrasive sound, hitting you like a kick in the ear. Free jazz dispenses with the chord progressions and set rhythm that traditionally have ordered jazz, leaving each member of a group free to improvise both notes and tempo. It is intense sounding and often looks to the emotional power of African music for its antecedents. Says Taylor: "One of the things I had to divorce myself from was the constraint or control that European music imposes, that we will do this or that...
...double imagery of blackness and blood that dominates the play is projected with cinematic dexterity by Co-Directors Robin Phillips and Eric Steiner. The same cannot be said for the treatment of the text, laboriously articulated as if for slow listeners. This seriously hampers the tempo of a play that should speed an audience headlong toward the hero's fierce doom...
Though the ranks of protesters thinned as the week progressed, the government faces serious problems in providing security at the airport over the long run. A 1,500-man permanent security force is planned, but it will be far from adequate if the current tempo of protest continues. Beyond protecting the 1,360-acre airport itself, authorities have to provide special antisabotage protection for jet fuel and other supplies transported to Narita from the outside. Then there is an expansion plan calling for construction of two runways to supplement the one now in use-requiring the purchase of still more...
Music everywhere, feet are pattin', Puttin 'tempo in old Manhattan...