Word: tempoed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contrast to this slow tempo is the terrifying speed of two motorcyclists, agents of Death. When Orpheus has abandoned his pregnant wife for Death, an ominous roar is heard and suddenly, Eurydice is struck down by the cyclists. Meanwhile, Orpheus is listening to obscure poetry over the radio in the Rolls, tragically ignorant of what has happened...
...theatrical cunning. Only gradually-and sometimes not at all-do theatergoers become aware that the cast is acting, without seeming to act. "Every movement of the body, even the turning of the pages, becomes important," explains Laughton. "You mustn't move, except for a startling effect." As the tempo increases, an actor will slip from his stool and move to center stage in time for his big prose "aria." As theater-wise Director Jed Harris pointed out: "By appearing to read, but actually knowing their parts by heart, they make the whole thing come alive. In a theatrical production...
...apartment market, the high-priced new houses were the first to feel the slack. As a result, builders were switching from $25,000 and $30,000 houses to units in the $10,000 to $12,000 range. They were easier to move, but even in that bracket the buying tempo had slowed...
...breeze, he whizzes past bicycle road racers and delivers mail down wells, on farmers' pitchforks and in threshing machines-when he is not tangling with wasps, pigs and flagpoles. The wine finally wears off, the fair departs and village and postman go back to a more tranquil tempo. "News," says one of the inhabitants of sleepy Sainte-Sévère-sur-Indre philosophically, "is so bad nowadays we certainly can wait a few extra minutes for the letters...
When Oedipus got under way, however, most found it surprisingly easy to take. It was mostly what Hollywood calls "Mickey Mouse music," i.e., the tempo coinciding with movement and speech. The Partch orchestra produced cacophonous sounds sometimes reminiscent of a Hollywood sound track for a Chinese street scene, sometimes like a symphony orchestra tuning up, occasionally like a Hawaiian string trio, and once during the argument between the seer and Oedipus, the rat-a-tat-tat of one of the percussions over a loudspeaker sounded like mice in the attic. The best thing about Partch's music was that...