What got Philbin juiced was the show's pinball-machine pace and production.
Add in the machine-gun pace — perhaps a response to the short running time, 50 minutes, not counting commercials — and the result is a flat and impersonal chronicle.
"He turns out ideas in a machine-like pace," said Jorge Castañeda, a former foreign minister of Mexico and a close friend of Mr. Unger.
He ordered oatmeal, which he said would double as breakfast and lunch, and spoke at a machine-gun pace that seemed more natural to him than the deliberateness he displays when he is behind a lectern.
In it Michelle sneaked off to Los Angeles to audition for a Broadway-bound musical alongside hundreds of other hopefuls while a casting director dismissed them at a machine-gun pace: "Nope.
It seemed only a matter of time: 7-1 againSwedenden, 6-1 againSpainain, 5-1 against Uruguay in the Copa America the previous year, the Uruguayan goal now under fire at machine-gun pace in the opening skirmishes.
Born in Belgium but now based in Amsterdam, Van Hove talks English at machine-gun pace, words and ideas rat-a-tat-tatting out in a fusillade of enthusiastic emphases.
Mr. Peña himself looks like a skeleton, with a buzz cut and body that is all bones and angles, and he moves and speaks at a machine-gun pace.
It's an industry that feeds on firing information at the viewer at a machine-gun pace and when that happens, a lot of context gets lost.
Demands were operationalized in terms of workload, and pacing control (self-paced vs. machine-paced) was used as a job control manipulation.
The piece features a memorable recurring melody (the little phrase?), plenty of gorgeous passages and a thrilling, machine-gun-pace final movement that's apparently quite difficult to pull off.
