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...Aesthetically, much of Williams' work vacillates between inert and abysmal. The rural comedy of "Juke Joint" is logy, as if the heat had gotten to the movie; even the musical scenes, featuring North Texas jazzman Red Calhoun, move at the turtle tempo of Hollywood's favorite black of the period, Stepin Fetchit. And there were technical gaffes galore: in a late-night scene in "Dirty Gertie," actress Francine Everett clicks on a bedside lamp and the screen actually darkens for a moment before full lights finally come up. Yet at least one Williams film, his debut "Blood of Jesus...
...Bush was praised widely after 9/11 for delegating the conduct and tempo of the war in Afghanistan to his military advisers and then getting out of the way. The Bush team as if by magic seemed to coalesce in September after months of intramural bickering: Cheney became a behind-the-scenes adviser, Powell finally took over as chief diplomat, and Rumsfeld stopped skirmishing with his generals and led them over the top into battle...
...second movement ländler was appropriately rustic, while the rondo-burlesque, taken at an exciting but never hurried tempo, culminated in an electrifying outburst at its conclusion. In between the faster fugato sections were heavenly trumpet solos. While the third movement showcased the brass, the strings came through in the last movement, sustaining the intensity of the long phrases until the very end. Bernstein described the final page of the symphony as “the closest we have ever come, in any work of art, to experiencing the very act of dying. The slowness of this page...
...Violence has continued, albeit at a slower tempo, throughout Powell's visit, and there is considerable danger of it intensifying after his departure. That won't do much to rescue Washington's deteriorating image among its allies in the Arab world. And appeals by Palestinian leaders for more forceful Arab support, accompanied by the images of devastation in Palestinian cities beamed around the world now that TV cameras are getting into Nablus and Jenin, could even stoke the fires of Arab rage against Israel and the U.S. in the coming weeks...
...long tradition of providing education programs to the community," notes Ron Gallman, director of education. "This was a logical extension of what we do." The site includes such features as Music Lab, which serenades kids with appropriate sound effects to teach them the basic components of music, from tempo to harmony. Within the lab is the Performalator, an online tool that enables kids to compose and play music. "The great thing is that this is both for someone who has some musical experience--and for someone with no musical background at all," Gallman says...