Word: tempo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...white banners hanging from the walls and rafters exhort the workers to strive for higher productivity. PRECISE RHYTHM, HIGH TEMPO, EXCELLENT QUALITY, says one. The portraits of outstanding workers, only slightly smaller than the pictures of morose Politburo members that adorn buildings before national holidays, line the factory's central avenue. The plant runs on two shifts from 7:40 in the morning until midnight, but the assembly line workers, whose average age is about 30, seem relaxed. At times they even stand around joking. Despite the ever constant exhortations to increase productivity, the Soviets have an easygoing attitude...
...Virtuozy Moskvy are 25 top musicians, organized into a chamber orchestra 18 months ago by Violinist Vladimir Spivakov, 35. World-renowned virtuoso himself, Spivakov alternates between bow and baton to direct his skillful charges with intensity and impishness: "Let's not be bulldozers," he will grin as the tempo speeds up during rehearsal of a Vivaldi passage. The virtuozy were the hit of Moscow's Russian Winter Festival and will play for Olympic audiences this summer. Spivakov would like to bring them to the U.S., but for him Jimmy Carter's cultural embargo hits a sour note...
There were indications at a high-level NATO meeting last week that the tempo of the pact's modernization program might quicken the spending increase. France and Britain are updating their own small nuclear forces. Europe has also strengthened the alliance by defying Soviet protests and allowing the U.S. to deploy medium-range nuclear missiles in some countries. To bolster NATO even more, the U.S. is asking its friends to assume further responsibility for their own defense, thereby freeing American forces for duty in the Persian Gulf and elsewhere...
...third set of this grueling two-hour match did not provide any relief for Meyer, as Silverstein continued to control the tempo and earned a hard-fought 5-7, 6-2, 6-4 three...
Bernstein's score moves with envious ease from the melodic lyricism of Tonight and Maria to the trip-hammer tempo of menace that animates The Rumble. As for Sondheim's lyrics, what can anyone say that he can't say better...