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...They like to play a defensive, field-position type ballgame," Crimson coach Joe Restic said yesterday. "If they control the tempo of the game with their defense, we'll be in bad shape...
...accompaniment for Acis was spirited yet discrete. The eight-piece ensemble of flute, two oboes, strings, and harpsichord was led by first-violinist Stanley Ritchie. Except for the "Happy we" chorus which was far too fast, tempi tended to lapse into a tempo ordinario, a common pitfall of Handel's music...
...deadlock between Harry Bridges' International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union and the Pacific Maritime Association drags on, though the tempo of negotiations quickened last week after an earlier meeting with Nixon. The 15,000-member union wants a wage increase of $14.40 to $52.92 a day, a guaranteed weekly wage, and total jurisdiction over loading and unloading cargo containers near the docks. This last demand precipitated the strike and remains the major cause of the impasse. The Teamsters union now claims jurisdiction over loading containers, and the shippers have refused to turn this work totally over...
PURLIE (562). Anyone who has ever been to an evangelistic revival meeting will instantly grasp the tempo, rhetoric and fervor of this show. When these people "rock church," they really rock church. Cleavon Little is a kinetic preacherman, and 22-year-old Patti Jo is as much of a superfind as her predecessor, Melba Moore, and equally beguiling...
...type is ripping his dress shirt off his sweating body, and, hell, what's that he's got on? O my God, a strike T-shirt! This guy's out there dancing in his underwear with a big, red fist stencilled on his belly. And, you could hear the tempo quicken, and everyone gulp down another drink, and throw themselves into saving abandon...