Word: up-tempo
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...amount of living, not all of it above the law, and he has a voice that can really sidle around a lyric, sound smooth flowing and knowing at the same time. Forever and Ever, Amen, which topped the country charts for three weeks, is a straight-ahead tune, an up-tempo litany of undying devotion -- all right, it's almost corny -- but Travis pulls it from the brink of bathos with some hair- trigger phrasing and a very sly, very worldly tone of voice. This singer's commitment may be total, but it's got as much to do with...
...with music. Has there ever been a songwriter like Berlin? Play a simple melody, he wrote, and he has: about 1,500 songs, show tunes and standards, ragtime and ballads, slow wistful waltzes and brisk up-tempo two- steps, reveries and reveilles. I love a piano, he sang, and have man and instrument ever been more symbiotic, the one giving voice to the other...
Princeton hung tough with the Crimson over the first 1000 meters of the race course, but Harvard gradually pulled ahead in the second half to win by a fairly clear margin. Both crews ran an up-tempo race, pushing each other to the extremely-fast times...
...away from up-tempo basketball and that was a mistake," the Arlington, Mass. native says. "We've gotten back to it because it allows the players to play up to their fastest potential. Now we just chuckle whenever anyone mentions that they have to stop our quickness. We know better, because we're not athletically a quick team...
...Harvard men's basketball team's exciting up-tempo offense--which produced 82 points a game last year--struggled in the early season, scoring less than 62 points in three of the squad's first eight contests...