Word: tempoed
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...tempo, fervor and construction, the piece resembles rock video. There is little plot and less sequence: it is hard to distinguish the present from the profuse flashbacks, yet it doesn't seem to matter. This may not be a cohesive play, but Frank Pugliese, 29, has the distinctive voice and emotive power of a true playwright. His unifying theme is race. Before the action begins, the boys have fatally stomped a black man who invaded their turf to buy a sandwich. They seem capable of redemption: the brightest (Adrian Pasdar) falls passionately if shamefacedly for a black woman (Cynthia Martells...
...Magazine, for example, sung in an arid yet passionate rasp, Edwards muses on how literary works have been replaced on people's bookshelves by visually slick magazines featuring everything "from the absurd to the obscene." The haunting, slow-tempo Yellow Brown recalls the cyberpunk film Blade Runner; synthesizer bass notes drip like fat raindrops, and the sounds of droning machinery resonate. Edwards laments ecological destruction caused by technology: "In the city air, in all our seas, you can see every other color bleed into/ Yellow brown. There's nothing to save us from ourselves...
...lead-off performance, the "Bhrat Natyam," or invocation dance, featured a single female dancer, Suchitra Natarajan of MIT, in traditional Indian garb. Natarajan synchronized her footsteps to the beat of a drum. The rattle of the ghungroo--bells worn on her ankles--echoed the tempo of the song...
Sayles would like to show you a woman's mind and heart. This American independent (Return of the Secaucus 7, The Brother from Another Planet) gives his movies the leisurely tempo, the sensible aspirations of foreign films; he means to get at the way real people behave, without the hysterics of Hollywood melodrama. So Passion Fish -- a female-rehab movie about May-Alice (Mary McDonnell), an actress made paraplegic in a car crash, and her helpful nurse, Chantelle (the ever splendid Alfre Woodard) -- is notable for what it doesn't show: the collision, the sight of May-Alice's mangled...
...Friars used their bench strength as much as possible. From the opening faceoff, Providence dictated an up-tempo, physical game, designed to wear down the understaffed Crimson...