Word: tempo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...monstrous deficit for whose solution he offered only the Band-Aid of a balanced-budget amendment. He may frequently have been wrong on his facts, but he spoke to the wordless groping of millions of Americans seeking comfort in the future. Reagan wanted to slow the entire tempo of change speeding Americans to disturbing ends-from encroaching Government and welfare dependency to the drug epidemic and crime in the streets. He saw the future in the lost summertime of the nation's past, when neighborhoods were safe, when families held together (though his first marriage had not), when...
...hoping to have the game become an end-to-end kind of game," Scalise says. "We'd like a fast-tempo, high-paced game...
Simpson's close to 760 publications include, "The Meaning of Evolution" (1949), "Tempo and Mode in Evolution" (1944) and "Quantitative Zoology" (1939) which he published with his wife. Anne Roe, professor emerita of the Graduate School of Education...
Moreover, Impulse successfully sets itself apart from ordinary thrillers by legitimately developing its plot and characters. For the most part, the characters in this film come across as real, and if the acting is somewhat nondescript, the tempo at least keeps things from getting dull. In fact, because relationships and conflicts crop up so intensely fast, it is easy initially to mistake Impulse for a drama rather than a psychological thriller...
That radiance is fully celebrated by Levine. At 41 already a brilliant conductor of Parsifal, he views Lohengrin as a kind of musical prequel to Wagner's last work. He adopted a daringly slow _ tempo for the Act I prelude, letting it burn with a fervid religiosity, but gave the chorus and onstage "brass players thrilling free rein in the opera's frequent boisterous moments. Levine has mastered the sense of timelessness so crucial to successful Wagner performances in general, and static works like Lohengrin in particular; one looks forward to the day, two seasons hence, when...