Word: tempoed
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...J.V.s looked a little shaky at the start, playing a team that had a few games under its belt. "They kept their poise and waited for the opportunities," Carr said They got plenty of opportunities in the third period as they picked up the tempo of the game and out-hustled the Warriors to the puck in the offensive none...
...sensitive monitor of what might be called the Cross-Over Culture, the place and time where private black lingo, black clothing fashions, black drugs and violence, and black music become part of some whites' lifestyles. This is osmotic rather than overt, something in the mood and tempo of his work, and not in the presence of any black characters in his plays. Nor is it his only concern. Fast cars, mechanical gadgetry, chrome and plastic values festoon his works and form a symbolic veneer under which, he seems to be saying, older American ideals are shriveling...
...than the luscious effects which may be superimposed thereupon--is the rule rather than the exception. For Baroque works in particular, such balanced performance requires the skillful proportionment of elements which, to the twentieth-century musical mind, often seem to conflict; the freedom of style of improvisatory ornamentation, frequent tempo rubato, and variety of tone color so admired in the period; and the restrictions of the relatively limited (to our ears) dynamic range of the instruments, various nationalistic styles in that era, and the degree of severity (or levity) of a particular musical structure...
...LIKE A DREAM to be in Tokyo," the grandmother remarks upon arrival. "I never realized it was so close." These words imply how Ozu illustrates the incipient disintegration of the Japanese family system. Tempo, life-style, mood and environment are so different in Tokyo, that the short train trip from their home creates an in surmountable gap for the old people between their customs and the modern ways of their children. The old man looks very uncomfortable and slightly ridiculous in his Western-style travelling suit, and immediately changes into his kimono upon entering his son's house. His wife...
...momentum didn't stay with the Harvard footballers, though, as a defensive foul-up between fullback Prank Gerald and Zurchow allowed a fluke goal and a change in the tempo of the game...