It was louder now, a crisp rhythm like someone eating celery very fast.

The steel-soled boots of the SS honor guard beat a crisp martial rhythm on the gleam- ing tiled floor as the troop approached these ceremonial functionaries.

Semantics, one of three trios performing on June 29, mixes crisp rhythms and unruly noise.

His images are full of irony, and sometimes even a kind of understated horror, but their crisp rhythms make those feelings pleasurable rather than repulsive.

Rather than force the humor or dwell on Uecker's legendary inadequacies as a major leaguer, Costas and Uecker's repartee had a crisp rhythm to it.

Mr. Marley, Bob Marley's son, carries on his father's reggae style, with crisp rhythms and catchy, succinct songs, full of consciousness-raising messages.

But Mr. Levine conducts every moment of this score with such vitality, crisp rhythm and expressive nuance that a listener is too engrossed to dwell on the music's shortcomings.

It proved a marvel of true, pliant, rich tone and crisp and flexible rhythms.

Throbbing bass lines and looming sustained tones, crisp electronic rhythms and swooping synthesizer notes ricocheted through the Anchorage, with up to four different musical sites active through dawn.

Beside and behind her, eighty pairs of almost-new boots beat the same crisp rhythm on the hard-frozen road to Duke's East.