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...case, Holbrooke intends to drive the participants at the same breakneck pace he has been forcing since mid-August. Over the weekend he was polishing a full draft of a proposed peace treaty that Christopher expects to put before the three Presidents as soon as talks begin. Holbrooke's tempo has some critics, notably in the French Foreign Ministry. They contend it results in the papering over of contentious details that may crop up later to wreck a seeming agreement. Holbrooke's answer is that stopping to iron out all the details is a sure formula for having negotiations...
...played good soccer but it just wasn't effective," Wojcik said. "We dominated the tempo and flow, passed well and made good plays. The bottom line is that we just didn't finish...
Suddenly, Harvard stepped its game up to a whole new level, settling down and controlling much of the tempo of the game...
From then on, Mondrian's work unfolds at a deliberate, ruminative tempo and in accord with a growing sense of inner logic, quite unlike the fits and starts by which most artists develop. By degrees, in 1911-12, the interweaving of Mondrian's fruit trees ceases to look like energetic lacework on a plain ground; the space between the branches is energized--it presses forward, no longer a void but a continuum of shape as active as the branches themselves...
Although Marsalis's introduction implied an exclusively Ellington set, some of Marsalis's own compositions found their way into the concert as well. The evening started slowly with the medium-tempo Ellington tune "Blues in Blueprint," followed by Marsalis's "Back to Basics," which allowed the band to open up a bit with solos throughout each section. However, it wasn't until after they had played two selections from Ellington's Deep South Suite and "Red Garter" from Ellington's Toot Suite that the band finally began to warm up. The highpoint of the first set came with the second...