Word: tempo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...album, as on the two before, several basic styles merge--a sea-chanty-like instrumental called "Lucky" precedes "Rain," which kicks off with a vintage Nashville feel. Then "I'm an Automobile" features a hard rock thump and a lighthearted come-on called "Schoolgirl" arrives with a skipping, folksy tempo. True to the ways established on the first two LPs, Forbert's melodies are catchy and his lyrics hang around to provoke rethinking. The songs not so much demand attention as engage it, sidling up to a listener's imagination with payloads of humor, observation and, sometimes, frustration. Whatever other...
...Fast is my normal speed," says Ken Follett, 31, who mastered his tempo at a Fleet Street typewriter. Fast is also the pace of the annual Follett bestseller. His latest thriller, The Key to Rebecca, streaks through the sands of plot with all the surprising velocity of one of General Erwin Rommel's panzer divisions in the North African desert-which happens to be where much of the novel takes place...
...Horn said he was "tickled to death that water polo's now a varsity sport at Harvard." But Horn wasn't laughing at the Crimson. "I'm really pleased with the progress that Harvard has already made. They did everything right, but our competition is tougher, so our tempo is just a little bit higher. The Ivy League is going to provide us with some good competition in the near future...
...tempo of fighting between Iran and Iraq picked up sharply yesterday in what some Harvard experts yesterday called an attempt by Iraq to establish itself as the dominant power in the Persian Gulf at a time of Iranian weakness...
...voice of Osborne is the voice of Thersites. He rails against the world around him, which he abominates as degraded and contemptible. The rhetorical force of his tirades provides the driving tempo of his plays. What is fascinating about his most potent dramas-Look Back in Anger, Inadmissible Evidence, The Entertainer-is that the hero whiplashes not only the world but also himself...