Word: up-tempo
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Harvard opened the game with an uncharacteristic up-tempo style. The Crimson's first score came when Seanor jarred the ball loose on defense, leading to a fast-break bucket and a 2-0 Harvard lead. When Feaster extended the lead to 4-0 on a baseline lay-up, it looked like the Crimson would have...
...knew Harvard was a very fast team," said Army coach Pat Harris. "The game was very up-tempo, and that was to their advantage, particularly when they were ahead...
Older songs, like the opening "I Got No Idols" and "Outsider," were revitalized by the new Hatfield sound. The latter, a bit sludgy and tentative on Only Everything, was transformed by an up-tempo delivery and hardcore bass (courtesy of a barefoot and ecstatic Welsh) into a tune which both excited and engaged the audience...
...relief of some listeners, McBride picked up his upright bass immediately after finishing "Twenty-Seven Summers," and the trio launched into a swinging, up-tempo 12-bar blues. With McBride walking up and down his bass and Redman offering some bluesy riffs, the audience got right back into it and afterwards applauded enthusiastically as the trio took a collective bow, arms over each others' shoulders...
...self-interest (Use What You Got), sung by hustler-narrator Jojo (the excellent Sam Harris), and keeps topping itself. Lillias White, as an over-the-hill hooker, brings vivacity and soul to Gasman's clever lyrics ("I'm getting too old/ For the oldest profession"), and the driving, up-tempo number Why Don't They Leave Us Alone turns the hookers and pimps into the most inspired chorus line in town. The Life may, in truth, be just another kind of Broadway hustle, but when the con men are as slick as these, you drop your money with a smile...