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After coming off a disappointing 0-0 tie versus the Big Red, Harvard picked up its tempo to win the next three games by margins of more than three goals. Decisive victories against Pennsylvania (6-2) and Colgate (4-1 OT) were confidence boosters as the Crimson upgraded its Ivy League record...
That will not always be enough, however, to keep Harvard's spirits up. The team knows that in tomorrow's home game against Providence, it needs to get the ball in the net early and set the tempo. If the Crimson's shot totals keep on matching E.T.'s fingers, there won't be very many wins...
...problem with Fenton's score, Goldenthal found, was that it mirrored the tempo of the movie: slow, almost turgid. Like Elmer Bernstein, who enlivened the ponderous exodus of the Israelites in Cecil B. DeMille's The 10 Commandments with quick, sprightly march music, Goldenthal sought to spice up Jordan's dour vision of vampirism with a sprinkle of harpsichord here, a dash of rock there. "The performances were very slow and metered," he says. "Brad Pitt's delivery was whispery. What the music needed was horseplay, fire; I took any chance I had to get quick music in there...
...boost reading speed from a dilatory 250 words per minute to a galloping 1,500--or more--made its diminutive founder an unlikely star when the institute opened in Washington in 1959. Presidents sent their staffs to learn the technique, developed by Wood from her study of naturally up-tempo readers, who she noted read pages from top to bottom, taking in whole thoughts in a single eyeful. Stunts like a class of 25 Woodites inhaling Animal Farm in 25 minutes drove the company to a peak of more than 150 branches in the 1970s...
...album. Country chanteuse Mary Chapin Carpenter won a Grammy in 1992 for Down at the Twist and Shout, her foot-stompin' tribute to Cajun music in general and Beausoleil in particular. "What drew me to Cajun?" ponders Carpenter. "In no particular order: percussion, fiddle, spices, waltzes, Acadian accordion, the tempo, lyrics of love and spirit, gumbo, wails, Highway 10, darkness, dance halls...