Word: tempo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With three goals in the first 70 seconds, Harvard dictated the game's entire tempo, keeping Springfield on the defensive. An 11-2 Harvard halftime lead became a 17-3 Harvard advantage after three quarters. Four goals from the visitors in the final stanza made it closer than it actually...
...state in which Hart can be said to have taken the lead, and hard to count any impressive number of delegates he might win even from those states where he has a newborn chance. But in just the first few days after New Hampshire, the change in the tempo of the campaign, and the atmosphere around the two candidates, was almost palpable...
...each program; U.S. orchestras generally allow four. He is no easier on the young American students than he is on professional musicians. Through 17 rehearsals he painstakingly explores every bar without the use of a score, allowing no detail to escape his attention. "How many bars in the new tempo do you have?" he demands of an errant celesta player. "I was taking my cue from the harp," she explains. Says Celibidache: "The harp was perfect. You came in too soon...
...Right from the start they took control of the game," freshman guard Keith Webster said, "and they never let go. In my whole career I've never felt so helpless I've never played in a game where I couldn't control the tempo of the game--for good...
Indeed, film composers have adopted the synthesizer at a tempo approaching allegro con brio. Giorgio Moroder has given it prominence in his scores for Midnight Express, Cat People and Scarface. James Horner used it along with mandolins, balalaikas and snippets of Tchaikovsky in his brooding themes for Gorky Park, and even such veteran film scorers as Quincy Jones and Lalo Schifrin have found that a judicious use of the synthesizer expands their imaginations. Observes Jones: "We're not giving up anything by using the synthesizer, only adding to the possibilities with space-age colors...