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Abruptly, Abzug changes tempo, modulates to a reassuring croon. "That's why you're going to elect me mayor." There is electricity in the synagogue sanctuary now, and Abzug delights in every watt. "I may break my neck in the process, but I'm going to do it!" Somewhere in the back, a middle-aged housewife shouts: "Right...
...quit as chairman of the P.M.'s Rhodesian Front Party and joined twelve other Rhodesian Front rebels in the ultra-rightist Rhodesian Action Party. This new group rejects even the limited concessions the regime has been making to blacks. As disturbing for the Smith regime is the quickened tempo of the "chicken run"-the flight of whites. Between 1,500 and 1,700 now leave Rhodesia each month; the net loss to the country (after accounting for immigration) could reach 12,000 this year...
...rather a dizzying series of walks and runs set to the music of Bach. At one point Nicholas Gunn, the company's best-known male dancer, must run across the stage to catch Carolyn Adams. Says Gunn: "I have to keep moving at that terrific tempo, and she has to jump in the air and hope that a man who is not there yet will get there at the last second to catch her. It's frightening...
...only were the famous Bilbao Song and "Surabaya Johnny written for this musical, but also half a dozen other numbers of rare distinction. Weill creates a dramatic internal rhetoric by alternating abrasive, staccato jazz-tempo passages with languorous melodies of rich and striking beauty...
...away the most vivid impression that emerges from Festival is the spectrum of genres and rhythms the band incorporates into its act. For instance, it's a big leap from the rhythm and blues beat of "Reach Up" to the heavily Latino-flavored tempo of "Maria Caracoles." The catchy rock rhythm of the second half of "The River" calls to mind some of Fleetwood Mac's most irresistible numbers, an impression that Leon Patillo's lead vocals do much to underscore...