Word: tempoed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group of seven dances and secular vocal pieces, most attractive was Non e tempo d'aspettare byMarco Cara, one of the chief musicians at Isabella's Mantuan court. It was played here by lute and viol. The performance of vocal pieces by an instrumental ensemble is a perfectly authentic Renaissance practice...
...style, a blend of black and white with technicolor--is an ideal compromise between the prosaic and the lush. The musical score is appropriate. And Huston controls the dramatic pace effectively, starting slowly in the New Bedford scenes, mixing in increasingly explicit predictions of doom, and constantly quickening the tempo until at the end, in the storm scene and the final fight with Moby Dick, the action grips not just the Pequod's crew but the audience as well...
...State Department flowed a torrent of policy decisions and position papers, hopes and trends and agreements, formal notes and informal memoranda-not to mention visiting foreign ministers and ambassadors-all symbolizing the quickening tempo of the cold war. Items of the week...
...about nuclear-weapons tests. "High-yield" thermonuclear explosions toss radioactive material into the stratosphere, where it hangs for years drifting around the earth. The tests also raise the radio active level of large areas of ocean. But these effects are slight, and will do no appreciable harm unless the tempo of bomb testing is increased many times over. There is nothing, say the scientists, to the popular idea that bomb testing has upset the world's weather...
...Haley and His Comets or The Platters, or a soloist such as Elvis Presley-the shrieks become deafening. The tumult completely drowns the sound of the spastically gyrating performers despite fully powered amplification. Only the obsessive beat pounds through, stimulating the crowd to such rhythmical movements as clapping in tempo and jumping and dancing in the aisles. Sometimes the place vibrates with the beat of music and stamping feet, and not infrequently kids have been moved to charging the stage, rushing ushers and theater guards...