Word: tempo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Director Marvin Chomsky (Roots; Holocaust; My Body, My Child) has usually been willing to sacrifice pace for performance. This time the tempo of fascism has given his film a compelling rhythm, and a company of distinguished actors has lent it an elegant tone. Gielgud is haughtily endearing, a stiff-collared gentleman who speaks in the cadences of Schiller and dreams in the images of Goethe. Robert Vaughn displays a flinty decency as Field Marshal Milch, who probes surgically for Speer's conscience, or at least his common sense. As Hitler, Jacobi spellbinds-first with the ingratiating gifts...
With an unnerving full-field, man-to-man defense that forced Crimson goalic Tim Pendergast into long forays up the field simply to find an outlet pass (the "something new"). Rutgers reasserted control of the ball and tempo that Harvard had momentarily borrowed. But then the bubble burst...
...wise, troubled priest and a rebellious young deacon is still going strong 160 performances later. Around the same time, Christopher Durang's Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You exploded off-Broadway. Written with the vindictive passion of a Jacobean tragedy and performed at a tempo the Marx brothers might have found taxing, Durang's one-act delight appeared on a sheaf of Ten Best lists. It has since moved to a larger Manhattan showcase, where it continues to win adherents...
...Harvard fans went crazy after the goal--the crowd was among the many who suffered a tentative awe of Clarkson through the early moments of the game--and parallel to their pick up in tempo, the icemen also stepped up a notch...
...crowd meant everything," Crimson wing Tony Visone said. "It changed the whole tempo of the game. You saw how we got pumped...