DALLAS -- Kevin Durant slowed the tempo as he dribbled toward a deflated Dallas Mavericks defense.
Leaning more toward down tempo jazz fusion than their contemporaries do, this proudly virtuosic Toronto trio offers almost completely improvised sets free of samplers and sequencers but full of time-stretching funk.
Richard Humpty Vission likes his house music brawny and aggressive, jacked up toward the tempo of trance and spiked with funk samples and voices intoning commands to party and self-praise; his new album is called "Damn That D.J. Made My Day" (Tommy Boy).
The "Time Warning" theme, which initiates a twofold increase in tempo to nudge Mario toward his goal, provides an obvious parallel in Super Mario Bros., but whether or not Space Invaders had a direct influence on Kondo is debatable.
When creating the incidental music for a 1965 production of "Play" — a love-triangle one-act that Beckett's stage notes nudge toward incomprehensibility ("Rapid tempo throughout.
And its hurried tempo, which nudged Mr. Whitfield toward an overanxious cadence, brought out the best in Mr. Payton, whose assertive solo conveyed both passion and reason.
When creating the incidental music for a 1965 production of "Play_"_ — a love-triangle one-act that Beckett's stage notes nudge toward incomprehensibility ("Rapid tempo throughout.
For the rest of us, no matter our team affiliation, the Golden State Warriors represent an ideal of pure, classic basketball – crisp ball movement, unselfish play, and a quick tempo – but with an eye toward the future.
Haas's aversion to expressive markings and tempo modifications fostered a performing style that tended toward "marmoreal grandeur," to quote the scholar Benjamin Korstvedt.
Just like that, he changed the tempo, cut inside, and embarked on a driving run toward the penalty box.
