Word: tempo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem with Fenton's score, Goldenthal found, was that it mirrored the tempo of the movie: slow, almost turgid. Like Elmer Bernstein, who enlivened the ponderous exodus of the Israelites in Cecil B. DeMille's The 10 Commandments with quick, sprightly march music, Goldenthal sought to spice up Jordan's dour vision of vampirism with a sprinkle of harpsichord here, a dash of rock there. "The performances were very slow and metered," he says. "Brad Pitt's delivery was whispery. What the music needed was horseplay, fire; I took any chance I had to get quick music in there...
...boost reading speed from a dilatory 250 words per minute to a galloping 1,500--or more--made its diminutive founder an unlikely star when the institute opened in Washington in 1959. Presidents sent their staffs to learn the technique, developed by Wood from her study of naturally up-tempo readers, who she noted read pages from top to bottom, taking in whole thoughts in a single eyeful. Stunts like a class of 25 Woodites inhaling Animal Farm in 25 minutes drove the company to a peak of more than 150 branches in the 1970s...
...album. Country chanteuse Mary Chapin Carpenter won a Grammy in 1992 for Down at the Twist and Shout, her foot-stompin' tribute to Cajun music in general and Beausoleil in particular. "What drew me to Cajun?" ponders Carpenter. "In no particular order: percussion, fiddle, spices, waltzes, Acadian accordion, the tempo, lyrics of love and spirit, gumbo, wails, Highway 10, darkness, dance halls...
Despite frequently falling behind in the count, Cicero was pitching well, controlling the tempo and working Eagle hitters as he wanted...
Before she turned nine years old, a pretty Texas girl named Selena Quintanilla Perez was already singing at roadhouse dance halls and weddings, purveying a bright, up-tempo version of traditional Mexican-American border music. A little more than a decade later, she was the Grammy-winning queen of the booming "Tejano" music market, playing to crowds of 60,000 and selling more than 1.5 million records in the U.S. and Mexico. "Never in my dreams would I have thought that I would become this big," she told TIME in a recent interview. "I am still freaking...