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...came together as a team and started to play for each other," Millar said. "Individually every member picked up their level of play. Even practices were much more up tempo...
...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...
...bereft lover can be playfully vindictive, as in the up-tempo (You Remember) The Way It Never Was, where even the girl-group la-la-las in the background have the whiplash of a taunt in them. Or she can try to take the long view. In So It Goes a woman hears about the end of an affair in whispers; the news has the impact of a sudden death in the family. Yet, she tells herself, "The spring lies waiting beneath the frozen ground/ And I'll be seein' you around/ So it goes...
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...