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...Black Day." As the news reached Europe, the Communist press broke out in jubilant headlines. Pro-U.S. papers were badly shaken. Wrote Rome's Il Tempo: "Whatever happens in the Senate, the harm has been done . . . Europe will live in perpetual fear that from one moment to the next America will ship her oars...
...film has earned great acclaim in Europe. Those who prefer their movies with a nervous tempo and honeyed brightness will find it very slow and very dark. But Dreyer has used timing and lighting so artfully that his characters seldom have to speak and never waste a word; he has gone farther than most moviemakers towards solving the difficult problems of silent cinema in a talk-ridden era. Some of his close-ups are extraordinarily long, but they are brimming with substance: the subtle, beautifully acted modulations of deep moral anguish...
...tango had long been danced by prostitutes and lawless toughies. It got into society by accident.To clean out the toughs, vigilante groups of rich young Argentines invaded the waterfront, stayed to learn the tango, later carried it to the ballrooms of France. Transplanted, the tango retained its sad, metallic tempo-one, two, three, pause-and continued to be danced by automatons whose torsos remained in expressionless rapture while their legs swept nimbly through the corte (cross step) and corrida (promenade). Actor Rudolph Valentino showed moviegoers how to do it when he tangoed his way to fame in The Four Horsemen...
After months of shuffling aur reshuffling, Freshman crew menter Harvey Love finally came up this week with boatings for tomorrow's '51 curtain raiser. But even at this late stage nothing can be considered definite, judging from the tempo of past changes in the Yardling shells...
...time Lee reached the second movement it was apparent to all that he was in complete command. The Hindemith piece, a product of the composer's earlier romantic period, is somewhat long for what it contains, nor does it have sufficient unity to bind it together. "In the tempo of a very slow march," the second movement, however, does include passages of great beauty, and the pianist put it forth with unquestioned understanding and competence. The growing excitement, sound, and tempo of the last movement gave Lee a chance to display his talent for emotional playing at its best...