Word: tempos
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...beef Wednesdays, and II Duce rapped that "Fascist discipline" will keep Italians from overeating. Famed Count Volpi, stabilizer of the lira, again moved in Government circles which he left after one of the Dictator's orders to "change the guard" (TIME, July 16. 1928). Italy's tempo last week was definitely staccato-and the King came out openly...
...Guild Theatre last week 75 Negroes sang, swayed, rolled their dice, exultantly prayed to "de Lawd." In the darkened pit lean Rouben Mamoulian, cinema director, tapped on an old-fashioned schoolteacher's bell, interrupted them constantly with "All right, children. . . ." His stage pictures grew steadily in beauty while the tempo of the acting rose to fever pitch...
...time themselves to the subtlest beat. To match the Gershwin counter point, Mamoulian planned counterpoint in movement which would have the effect of a dramatic ballet. Porgy was to start one song simply, with: "I got a plenty o' nuthin' and nuthin's plenty for me." As the tempo mounted and the crowd joined in, chairs were to rock faster, one old black woman was to take to sharpening her carving-knife, another to whisking her dustcloth up & down like a crazy baton...
...Gerling's insistence on economy has had one less happy result this autumn. Finding that pupils who fail of promotion were costing the city $300,000, he ordered the tempo of teaching slowed down. Primary pupils will have less reading: algebra will be taught later in high school; Latin will be spoon...
...modern and urban equivalent for the now defunct Wild West thriller, "G-Men," the terrier-like James Cagney swaggers his way through a tempestuous epic of the Department of Justice. Technical perfection and a deft, rapid-fire tempo combine to obscure the insanity of the plot, and, when public enemies sway to the stutter of government machine guns, Willie cheers just as he would if the last rustler had cashed in his chips. The philosopher may believe that "G-Men" misses fire as social drama, but he will hardly find it boring...