Word: tempo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...focused on the problem-ridden Soviet economy. Citing improved industrial production, which grew by 4% last year, compared with 2.8% in 1982, he affirmed that "a change for the better" was under way in the national economy. "The most important thing," wrote Andropov, "is not to lose the tempo and the general positive intent to get things going...
Captain Kathryn Busby, determined to equal her teammates, ran 400 meters in a furious tempo, setting a new personal record with 58.63. Maryaan Harring followed Maryaan Harring followed suit, winning the 800-meter run in a respectable...
...perfected. It was the brush that counted for her, and when she did fling or dribble liquid pigment on the surface, it only looked like a mannerism. But her sense of drawing was so ingrained that she could cover a huge surface with notations that never palled: shifting tempo, direction, fatness of marks; she could (literally) paint up a storm. Works like Cobalt Night, 1962, or Charred Landscape, 1960, raise echoes of romantic "spectaculars," from Tintoretto to Oskar Kokoschka. They take a field of subject matter that Pollock was generally thought to have sealed off as his own-atmospheric space...
...held 22.8% of the domestic market as recently as 1978, unveiled a slimmed-down Continental Mark VII ($22,231) this month. The company has been betting heavily on its streamlined Ford Thunderbird ($13,093) sports coupe, introduced with its Mercury Cougar twin in February, and on the compact Ford Tempo ($7,557)-Mercury Topaz line that arrived last May. Ford said Thunderbird accounted for 2.6% of all U.S. auto sales in September. The Tempo-Topaz entry recorded an 88% sales gain in the third quarter, compared with the compact models Ford was selling a year...
...little shy of star quality as Jesus in the musical Godspell, although his singing voice is sweet and true, his movement is crisp, and his line readings are intelligent. The rest of the ensemble has a more spontaneous energy, and one player, Neil Foster, almost explodes in the up-tempo We Beseech Thee. The slight plot and Stephen Schwartz's exuberant score, which in the 1971 premiere seemed purely a product of flower power, hold up surprisingly well: the youths who eventually join up with Jesus have been reconceived by Director Gregory Peterson as 1980s punk rockers with spiky...