Word: tempo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...smart, shambling self, though it takes a while to get there. In the opening scene, director Kinka Usher tries to get a Tim Burton flavor of dark comic hipness and blows it; he is flailing even as Mr. Furious does at first. Usher feels his way to the right tempo and tone, and when he finds it he doesn...
Throughout the slow-tempo, 45-min. piece, danced to a haunting score by Gavin Bryars performed with synthesizers and stringed instruments, the virtual dancer reappears in various incarnations. Sometimes it's alone, bathed in purple light; at other times it's part of an elaborate ensemble of virtual dancers. It may be 20 ft. tall and amber, or tiny, white and barely there. Its "body" morphs from a hand-drawn squiggle to an array of dots to a mesmerizing blur. When it's visible, you study its interplay with the live dancers. When it vanishes, you wonder when it will...
...remember being wide-eyed at the speed the players possessed" at Minnesota, Mazzoleni said. "I like to play an up-tempo game, not dump-and-chase. Pressure both when you have and don't have the puck...
...greatest-hits album, the big sister of folk-rock country accentuates the up-tempo side of her decade-long legacy. Don't look for the cogent introspection of Only a Dream; here she has chosen songs brassy enough to be sung at the Super Bowl (Down at the Twist and Shout) or on Letterman (Can't Take Love for Granted). They sound great, as do two new anthems about the singer's favorite people: women who run risks, pay for them, keep on running. And at the head of the pack, still not breathing hard, there's Chapin...
...offered the top hockey job at Harvard, Beaney said he would play a style that was "up-tempo" and "aggressive offensively...