Word: tempo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dominate. The forwards can shoot and rebound. The guards can control the tempo of the game. It's an unbeatable and elegant combination and the Harvard freshmen basketball team can work together well...
...EVEN TEMPO of changes in movement quality and the unvarying level of intensity in execution anchor the multiplicity of surface motifs in "Clearfield." The only larger sense of form seems to be increasing differentiation. In the first half Soll remains separate from her four companions, who change off in duets, trios, and quartets. In the second part she begins to interact with the others; the quartet breaks up and the choreography becomes more diffuse as each performer defines a sphere of his own. In this latter section there are deliberate breaks in the monotone of the first half. The dancers...
Captain Julia Moore battled to win the decisive point of the final game in a marathon match with her Williams rival, Jan Garvey. Moore had enabled her opponent to control the tempo of play and deadlock their match at two games apiece. In the fifth game Moore persistently dodged the wide-swinging weapon of the black-eyed Ephwoman and exhaustively hung...
...with rock 'n' roll in A Star Is Born is that there isn't any. The soundtrack is filled with homogenized harmonics passing for rock, but not a single song is good enough even to be counterfeit. There are whimpy ballads and, on occasion, an up-tempo number that might make the Peter Duchin Orchestra restless. No recognizable rock, however, which is a distinct handicap in a movie that deals with two pop superstars who are supposed to be singing it, playing it and living...
...tempo picked up, Brown tried to make it a game as baskets were evenly exchanged. Radcliffe then ran off a six-point string half way through the stanza, capped by eventual leading scorer Caryn Curry's two free throws to make the score 39-29 with 10 minutes remaining...