Word: tempo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...faces of the audience as they watched the slow ballad. The audience was mesmerized by the graceful, lyrical movements of the hula dancers hands, the rhythmic sways, their radiant smiles, set to the beautiful and haunting lyrics of Keali'i Reichel and a sole acoustic guitar. Later, the tempo picked up with the resounding beat of Tahitian music and frenetically wonderful hip movements of inspired dancers...
...Penn is an up-tempo team with very strong starting players," said Crimson junior point guard Tim Hill...
Until the past few months, after she plunged into her role as a White House whistle blower, life wasn't at the right tempo for Tripp. In the '90s, she had mostly worked as a secretary and logistics aide, a planner and coordinator for the powerful men in the White House and the Pentagon. She belonged to a class not peculiar to Washington but well represented there--those proximate enough to power to see its realities but not vested with sufficient authority to effect change. It was frustrating. "She wanted to do things her own way," says a Pentagon official...
...recent work. The opening cut from Time Out of Mind, "Love Sick," followed "Knockin' On Heaven's Door," and was given the most striking live interpretation of all the songs that evening. "Love Sick" sets the introspective tone of the new album with a moody sound and sedate tempo, and in concert, with a thick and reverberating sonic treatment applied to the instruments, it was particularly effective...
With the piano removed from the stage during intermission, listeners were finally afforded an unobstructed view of the orchestra and Yannatos began Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 at a relaxed tempo that suited the melancholy chords and the march-like id'ee fixe of the piece's opening movement. While the technique of the string players received most of the attention in the Rachmani-noff, the Tchaikovsky incorporated multiple solo parts highlighting the wood-winds and brass...