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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...
Stokes is marvellous as Flan, communicating both his ironic intelligence ("There was an article about it in the paper of note--theTimes," he deadpans) and his essential goodness. And Fortunato has the tempo of Ouisa's anxious monologues down pat--"Two million dollars!" she repeats, like an incantation, as she and Flan woo a potential investor...
...life and struts through the Shoppin' for Clothes number. Choreographer Joey McKneely gives the performers a killer aerobic workout. When they're not executing brisk parodies of the goofy-cool footwork done by every backup group in the '50s, they are sexily slow dancing to L&S's low-tempo stuff or, in a gorgeous version of Spanish Harlem, bringing ballet to the barrio. These cats can sing too, both as solo stunners-check out Victor Trent Cook's rabid virtuosity on I (Who Have Nothing)-and as part of street-corner quartets that seem to have been together...
Although Harvard will pay attention to Gilmore and Webeck, the players feel that they need to concentrate on playing their style of basketball--up-tempo on offense complemented by aggressive...