Word: tempo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beginning, we pretty much controlled the tempo," Boutilier said. Much credit for that went to sophomore guard Pat Horne, who, with five assists and six steals to show for her fine defensive work, was also the Crimson's high scorer with eleven baskets...
Despite the gallant comeback attempt, the icewomen remained content to play defensive hockey for most of the first two periods. As the Eagles sped up the tempo after the opening minute jitters, the Crimson never made its move, waiting instead for the B.C. offense...
Crimson coach Frank McLaughlin analyzed the game in his characteristically cogent style. "From the start we never really got into the game. We never executed. They controlled the tempo...We called two times-outs early...but we were never there mentally...
...them creatively. Stravinsky's music marches and prances, waltzes and tangos; formal arrangements suddenly give way to the tinkling of rag time. The choreographer must somehow make the abrupt look fluid. Martins does so by keeping the transitions loose-limbed and larky. He registers a sudden shift in tempo by crooking this dancer's arm or sending that dancer into a modified shimmy. When the music turns Russian, the men magically assume the guise of Bolshoi dancers, arms folded, legs kicking. The whole interlude lasts perhaps 30 seconds...
...sincere. The stuff may be corny, but it's never prefab. Neil leans into the Kol Nidre as if it were a sacred version of his sound-track anthem for Jonathan Livingston Seagull. One may question his taste, but not his enthusiasm or his exuberance. America, his up-tempo celebration of the immigrant glories of American life that opens and closes The Jazz Singer, is equal parts Emma Lazarus and Irving Berlin, and none the worse for it. It is too close to Diamond's heart to be purely sappy. It is a showman's showstopper...