Word: tempoed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Composer Philippe-Gérard, who wrote the score for the hit movie Rififi, long ago decided that "the truest and most exciting tempo of all might be the human heart." He borrowed a stethoscope, listened to some 50 hearts before he heard just the cardiac sound he wanted: it was thumping in the chest of a 21-year-old Parisian sales girl and model named Nicole Guillenette. What Philippe-Gérard liked about Nicole, he says, is that her heart turned over at a remarkably steady 58 beats to the minute (ideal, in his judgment, for rock...
Allegretto. In West Hartlepool, England, Bandmaster Robert Davies paid his fine for speeding, explained: "I was humming one of Liszt's rhapsodies. During one of the quickening passages, I must have unconsciously pressed the accelerator, thereby increasing the tempo of the engine to the tempo of the music...
There were some who questioned the idea of a traffic-free interior city. "Rome cannot live in the shadow of its ruins," sighed // Tempo. "Rome is not Pompeii, but a living metropolis...
Twelve Russian "students" yesterday continued their frenetic tour of Cambridge, as they met with the Deans, attended conferences and toured the College area. "The tempo in the United States is very fast," group leader Nikolai Voshchinin commented at the news conference, and the group's pace certainly proved his statement...
...rebels' reply, neither had he publicly denounced it. The sides were closer together now than ever before, and it was a reasonable guess that both De Gaulle and the rebels were brooding over the next discreet effort to narrow the gap. As Rome's Il Tempo put it: "The door is closed, but the window is open...