Word: tempo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hire the woman who brought down a Governor. She is a teacher of criminology at a Florida community college, consoling herself with the meditations of a stoic: "Have I done something for the general interest? Well, then, I have had my reward." Maas' forensic style and vigorous tempo are ideally suited to Marie's story. The author makes clear that his knowledge of feminine determination is derived from experience. His late wife, Audrey Gellen Maas, was co-producer of the film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, in which a widowed woman stubbornly sets...
With a 6-5 lead in hand, though, the hosts quickly let the game's tempo slip away. Aided by its switch to a zone defense--the Crimson had played a man-to-man set-up in the first half--Harvard picked up several ground balls, quickly following that with a barrage of shots...
...point of the trip came Saturday, when the Tigers surprised an exhausted Crimson squad, 10-8. Princeton controlled the game's tempo and never allowed the Crimson to take what many of the laxwomen thought would be any easy...
Horton Foote's lovely screenplay finds its pace and meaning in the slow, plaintive tempo of rural Texas life. Mac teaches Sonny a few guitar chords; he sashays through a honkytonk dance with Rosa Lee; he gets dunked in the christening tub at the local Baptist church; he tries to make peace with his rebellious daughter (Ellen Barkin); he visits Dixie's Tara-size mansion to say an elegy over a dead marriage; he tosses a football around with Sonny. Attuned to the movie's rhythm, the viewer will see wounds heal, friendships ripen, a bond sealed...
...while Saturday's match-up comes extremely early in the season and will be the first real test for both squads. Crimson Coach Carole Kleinfelder explains that it could easily set the season's tempo for her squad...