Word: speeding
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...when we do, we learn again that it wasn't built for speed--it was built to last, for the ages of ages. So in a time of severe impatience, it is teaching us, among other things, to be steadfast. The Founders, astride an age of enlightenment and revolution, did not want power transferred quickly or easily or often. They knew much more about taking power by force than we ever will--and the risks of anarchy that go with it. By comparison, what's going on here is almost an innocent minuet. It doesn't happen very often...
...catchy title track, which opens the album, features the great chorus "And I've begun to hate the ceiling like I never loved the sky." The second track, "Taunt," a high-speed tune with only a few words, is more of a playful number. The epic "Daughter of the American Revolution" rounds off the album's quartet of songs. Throughout the album, Ensimismada remain listenable, without the off-the-wall sounds or unintelligible lyrics that affect too many student bands. B+ -Erik A. Beach
...soundbite-ready. They don't come with talking points, graphics and a prepackaged video B-roll. But TV is about now: Television that patiently waits for resolution and reasoned selection of detail is called "photography." So when the thick decision pamphlets came down the SCOTUS steps, it was speed-readin' time...
...pounds huge. He flattens defenders, stiff-arms tacklers and dwarfs his own offensive linemen in the huddle. He makes kickers look like hors d'oeuvres. Some historical perspective? Culpepper has the exact physical measurements of Deacon Jones, the Hall of Fame defensive lineman who terrorized puny quarterbacks with his speed and size. Culpepper could settle that score...
...Earl Wild, who just turned 85, is the last of the great Romantics, a tradition of spellbinding virtuosos that began with Liszt and flowered before World War II with the "Golden Age" pianists--such legends as Paderewski, Hofmann, Godowsky and Rachmaninoff. Like them, Wild produces gorgeous sounds at any speed or volume, possesses vitalizing musical instincts and revels in the kinetic and sensual possibilities of the piano: its potential to evoke the grandeur of an orchestra and lyricism of a singer...