Word: tempoed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rose Tattoo (Perry Como; Victor). A brief, misty legend in slow waltz tempo, from the forthcoming movie version of the Tennessee Williams play. It seems that some fellow got tattooed as a gesture of his undying love, and then he died, and the poor girl will "wait her whole life through" for him to return...
...diversity in the types of humor which it employs. Sometimes the situations themselves are hysterical, but usually they are only mildly whimsical, with Fernandel himself supplying what humor there is. Throughout there is a very casual air; Director Henri Vernuil makes no attempt to create a laugh-per-minute tempo, with the result that none of the humor seems forced. In fact, one often has the feeling that humor is deliberately being withheld from him. At times the audience sits, wanting to laugh at Fernandel's lugubrious countenance, but, for long minutes, potentially ludicrous situations remain tantalizingly un-laughable. When...
What is worse, if lung-cancer death rates increase at the present tempo, 306,000 Americans will die of cancer in 1965. Can we prevent this from coming true...
...band marched back and forth, playing sometimes in quick march tempo, at others majestically slowly. By contrast, the pipers shook the crowd with their music's wild beauty. It was the fascinating difference between palace panoply and hillside rebel yells. The pipers played a few marches and accompanied eight regimental dancers in a slow fling and a rapid, triumphant reel. After some concert pieces (Tchaikovsky's Marche Slave, Arditi's // Bacio, etc.) indifferently done by the band, the dancers placed claymores in the form of a St. Andrew's cross on the floor for the warlike...
...Potomac River, three-time cup winner Miss Pepsi, driven by Detroit's Chuck Thompson, finished first. But on the final dash, Miss Pepsi crossed the starting line two seconds ahead of the gun and was disqualified. Winner on points (after finishing third in the final heat): Tempo VII, driven by Danny Foster and owned by Band Leader Guy Lombardo...