To quote — as he does — the rat-a-tat conversation of house sparrows: Hey!
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Post flitted between the rat-a-tat rhythms of rapping and gristly, power-ballad crooning.
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Braithwaite writes in a rat-a-tat style that forces the plot along at a clip.
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Elected leaders have become numb to the rat-a-tat frequency of such killings, antiviolence activists say.
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Broder does a scrupulous job of mimicking the jazzy rat-a-tat delivery and finger-snapping attitude.
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Visitors enter to the rat-a-tat-tat of machine gun fire, a looped 1971 sound piece.
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Every two pages read like a scene, with rat-a-tat dialogue and sometimes even directions for lighting.
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While Trump may not have started the fire, his rat-a-tat-tat fusillades have certainly exacerbated it.
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Ms. Harris employed her same style of rat-a-tat questioning, but it seemed to lead to nowhere.
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Midge still gets the wittiest rat-a-tat banter, of course, but now she has lots of highly entertaining help.
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Sure, it had seemed a bit rat-a-tat, one activity after another, but I also felt thrilled, and wanted more.
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The film instead takes a distinct turn away from rat-a-tat plotting and revenge toward a frankly stunning, contemplative movement.
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But in the rat-a-tat-tat of follow-up questions, Sessions slowly pried that door open again, by increasingly hedging his answers.
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"My conscience won't let me go and shoot them," Ali said in that rat-a-tat-tat stream-of-consciousness style of his.
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The chorus imitates the whirring of air raid sirens and the rat-a-tat of machine guns, as in Hugo Ball's sound poetry.
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The new shows feature the customary mix of crisp, rat-a-tat dialogue and workplace romance, or at least, sexual tension and chemistry.
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While cheering Mr. Abiy's declaration about the border, diplomats are stunned by the rat-a-tat pace of his sudden departures from old practice.
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The central sentence actually goes on for almost twice as long, disrupting the rat-a-tat rhythm that is typical of Nietzsche's later writing.
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Everything there is — all matter and energy, all known forces — behaves sometimes like waves, smooth and continuous, and sometimes like particles, rat-a-tat-tat.
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And the hymnlike, dreamlike "Somewhere" is entirely square, at least until it wakes up to the rat-a-tat nightmare that is the lovers' reality.
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A surly mood continued into Monday night, but this time was directed in rat-a-tat attacks against Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and the Democratic establishment.
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It is bleak stuff, and rendered with less of Iannucci's signature rat-a-tat-tat joke delivery (though it's not devoid of some truly inspired epithets).
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He rattles off data — misses, shooting percentages, the number of back cuts — submachine-gun style, rat-a-tat, followed by a chaser of context and critique.
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There is the deafening rat-a-tat of jack hammers and the incessant banging and high-pitched wail of construction equipment that echoes in his head.
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A group of bright-eyed munchkins from Killian Elementary School rat-a-tat-tat a welcome on snare drums as Harris steps onto a mini-stage.
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What she delivered, filtered through Auto-Tune, was a rush of tangled syllables and rat-a-tat repetition that somehow sounded familiar and was instantly hummable.
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That last volley lasts all of two seconds and plays out offscreen, with only the rat-a-tat sound effect making viewers aware of the widespread carnage.
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She slips back into creator Amy Sherman-Palladino's rat-a-tat dialogue without missing a beat, and her nuanced performance as Lorelai Gilmore supplies the show's beating heart.
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If there is an R, an, A and a T in the hive, you can be sure that Rat-A-TAT will be counted as a word. 49A.
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The relationships and situations do continue to advance in this period comedy from writer-producer Amy Sherman-Palladino, with the rat-a-tat patter she has practically trademarked.
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As Stephen talks me through it, the engine hums with a distorted, single tone crackle, the rat-a-tat-tat of the guns piercing the screen with black and white.
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Vaccaro speaks in the rat-a-tat of a sports ticker, and if he traded his golf shirt for a suit and tie he would be a natural for CNBC.
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Mr. Berke wore two hats: After testifying alongside the Republicans' lawyer, Stephen R. Castor, he questioned Mr. Goldman and Mr. Castor, rattling the Republican with his rat-a-tat style.
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As the Molly in Molly's Game, Chastain gets to rat-a-tat-tat her way through rapidfire Aaron Sorkin dialogue (the film is also marks his fairly slick looking directorial debut).
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As politicians tangle over how best to manage the country's obscenely huge and growing arsenal of privately owned guns, the rat-a-tat of gun violence continues to bleed us all.
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Clinton's remarks received little in-depth coverage in the news media, while cable channels went live with Mr. Trump's rat-a-tat recitation of "Crooked Hillary," his favored nickname for her.
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"Do you feel like there's a place for you and me in the home of the brave and the land of the free?" he asks, in a rat-a-tat stream.
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She speaks in rat-a-tat German, and peppers her conversations with references to the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan (sometimes referred to as the "French Freud") and Danish physicist Niels Bohr.
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SKEPTA AND STORMZY The British genre called grime deploys rat-a-tat electronic rhythms behind rappers who insist on gritty urban realism and reject (in both lyrics and presentation) celebrity trappings.
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There is also some very funny stuff for Josh Gad as the snowman Olaf, who, in one applause-inducing sequence, breathlessly recaps the previous movie in one rat-a-tat burst.
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With his crude jokes and rat-a-tat riffs on modern life, Mr. Li has become a hero to a generation of disaffected young people in China's smaller cities and rural areas.
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Silencer controls were enacted as a public safety precaution in the gangland rat-a-tat of the 1930s, when law enforcement officials wanted to make it harder for killers to escape detection.
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Just when you think you know him, across his two novels and three books of stories (along with a memoir in essays), there's this other thing he does, a rat-a-tat thing.
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Mr. Churkin had been trained as a translator, and as an ambassador, he sometimes became visibly annoyed with United Nations interpreters who could not keep up with his rat-a-tat speaking style.
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But his older character's regrets and war-weary demeanor have such a familiar quality that it's tough to bring much spark to what amount to the lulls between roaring engines and rat-a-tat firefights.
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Similarly, Sherman-Palladino's trademark rat-a-tat banter feels extra-stilted funneled through this nice Jewish girl and her extended circle, until everyone sounds the same -- as if they're participating in a Catskills comedy skit.
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He would help himself by being a little less rat-a-tat-tat and a little more presidential in making his arguments, but he has come a long way since those first debates eons ago.
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Such a thing seems unavailable for love or money, a little gust to break the stultifying heat, to aerate the close, humid echo chamber of the 24-hour news cycle and its rat-a-tat revelations.
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But if you were on the fence, the beautiful noise it makes as its shutter flicks open at 16 frames per second—like a kind of soothing machine gun rat-a-tat-tat—might just convince you.
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He was Santa Claus and the mailman and a teen-ager driving tons of munitions through a monsoon-slick road in early February with rat-a-tat sniper fire in the distant hills as normal as birdsong.
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Despite its bright cheer and generally happy ending — not to mention the rat-a-tat of laughter throughout — "Wilder Gone" really does fulfill the "provocative" part of Clubbed Thumb's mission, insofar as hopefulness may now feel provocative.
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Then he leans forward and, still seated, dribbles Harlem Globetrotter-style, tiny pat-a-cake dribbles, then rat-a-tat big ones between his legs, and then a crazy weave, the whole time grooving to the music.
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Sorkin's reputation for crisp, rat-a-tat dialogue is well deserved, and he has an intriguing protagonist in Chastain's Molly Bloom, who became an assistant to a Hollywood shaker who also presided over a high-stakes poker game.
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Standing amid the rat-a-tat of computer-driven embroidery machines, Mr. Ma said Yijia Ethnic Clothing's three factories now make 50 million hats a year and provide more than two-thirds of the world's low-priced Islamic headwear.
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Part of that has to do with series creator Amy Sherman-Palladino's rat-a-tat dialogue, a longstanding hallmark of her shows (see "Gilmore Girls" and its Netflix revival) that, frankly, is either your cup of tea or isn't.
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What they only seldom achieve, though, is the sense of a professional tribe collectively hypnotized by their own high-octane mythology — moving, talking, clashing in a frenzied competitive march that holds them prisoners of its rat-a-tat rhythms.
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You probably keep note of the songs that remind you of the euphoria of your early twenties, the drudgery of a commute, the comforting rat-a-tat rocking of a train carriage along a well-worn path to visit family.
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Homeboy Sandman & Edan: Humble Pi (Stones Throw) His beatmaking proudly utilitarian, his quick tetrameters and plosive rat-a-tat-tat too abrupt to fully earn the glorious old metaphor flow, the heroically consistent Homeboy has never been quite musical enough.
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That isn't always a bad thing: the entertainment world would be a slightly more boring place without his beloved walk-and-talks, and it's hard to imagine movies like The Social Network without his incendiary speeches and rat-a-tat dialogue.
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Here and elsewhere, Mr. O'Rourke delivered his message with a rat-a-tat urgency, his knees bouncing in rhythm with his words, with one hand grasping a microphone and the other one gesticulating like a bull rider out of the chute.
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Roughly 13 yards away, a machine had spit dozens of freshly washed golf balls through a plexiglass chute, and the clattering, rat-a-tat noise they made as they spilled out transported McInerney back to the night of Oct. 21.
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This isn't an orchestra that does spectacular soft atmosphere, but moments like the stillness of the second movement, "Lemminkäinen in Tuonela," when the barest shiver of violins is frosted by the barest shiver of rat-a-tat drum, were finely controlled.
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A smart, slick caper film, QT's rat-a-tat dialogue and style birthed numerous imitators and ushered in the latest generation of filmmaker who, like their musical contemporaries, were deft at mashing up references and tropes to construct something new and fresh.
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And his gift with words, his rat-a-tat patter and comic rhythms, also left an indelible mark on television, the venue in which he cut his professional teeth alongside a host of other creative titans, writing for Sid Caesar in the 1950s.
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The play, set in the bustling press room of a Windy City courthouse, has spawned multiple TV adaptations, films (including "His Girl Friday," which gender-swapped one of the main characters, adding spice to the rat-a-tat repartee), and Broadway revivals.
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At 90 minutes, the story tends to meander, providing lots of time for rat-a-tat banter (and references to things that weren't on the radar when the show signed off, like "Game of Thrones") but moving the plot along at a snail's pace.
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Marty and his wife, Wendy (Laura Linney), hatch and abandon laundering schemes — plowing money into a strip club, a lakeside resort and an evangelical church — in a rat-a-tat fashion that provides lots of plot and supporting characters but isn't that interesting or convincing.
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Seventy-five percent of the film's carpet-bomb campaign of pop culture meta punchlines will ricochet over the target audience's head, but parents dragged along for the ride will no doubt be grateful for Arnett's rat-a-tat send-ups of Adam West and superhero clichés.
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Ms. Casel, a 5-foot-1 bundle of defiant energy with the body fat of a piece of lettuce, was soon speaking in what she calls her "other language," delivering a rousing, rapid-fire series of rat-a-tat taps with her feet that seemed to ricochet off the walls.
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Swet Shop Boys: Cashmere (Customs) Rat-a-tat-tatting his rhymes grime style, Riz MC—better known as Oxford-educated, Anglo-Pakistani big deal actor Rizwan Ahmed—might better captivate American ears with his bookish smarts and common touch if his gritty high baritone was more resonant and his flow more fluent.
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Ever since Steven Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan" rewrote the genre's rules in 1998, the standard way to shoot a battle sequence has been to have the camera swinging around madly, as if the camera-operator were dodging bullets, and then to edit the footage into the rat-a-tat rhythm of machine-gun fire.
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" The report lists rat-a-tat examples of times that aides and advisers slow-walked or rebuffed Trump suggestions and orders, insulating him from obstruction: Former FBI Director Jim Comey "did not end the investigation of [national security adviser Michael] Flynn, which ultimately resulted in Flynn's prosecution and conviction for lying to the FBI.
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The rat-a-tat sound of the Las Vegas shooter's gunfire prompted police at the scene to report the gunman was using an "automatic" weapon - a term often used to describe a fully automatic gun that can fire as many rounds as its magazine, drum or belt holds by pulling and holding the trigger.
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The sketch itself endures for a number of reasons: Its simple premise delivering myriad laugh lines, the clear schlemiel-schlimazel dynamic between performers, the room it provides for embellishment, and the rat-a-tat delivery make it feel like a ramshackle Ford Model T gathering speed as it barrels toward the edge of a cliff.
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Over the course of the previous two weeks, we had grown accustomed to the sound of fighter jets from the Saudi-led military coalition circling far above us, their arrival announced by the rat-a-tat of anti-aircraft fire and punctuated by the boom of rockets they'd fire into what the coalition said were vital military targets.
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The startling, coast-to-coast rat-a-tat-tat -- a conviction in Virginia, a confession in New York and new charges in California -- left the GOP off balance and had Democrats, already eyeing a sharper anti-corruption message for the fall, arguing voters should put them in power in Congress to serve as a check on President Donald Trump.
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The back-and-forth, which played out in public rat-a-tat-tat bursts, 140 characters at a time, also offered a vivid preview of how the six months until Election Day could unfold, with the popular Ms. Warren emerging as a unifier of the Democratic base and Mr. Trump — so far, at least — still unable to resist small provocations as he tries to become a more disciplined general election candidate.
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In "Molly's Game," opening Christmas Day, Aaron Sorkin adapts Ms. Bloom's 2014 memoir and, in his directorial debut, follows her up the money mountain as she lures Hollywood stars, pro athletes and Russian mobsters into high-stakes poker games — and then gets busted by the F.B.I. Jessica Chastain, who earned a Golden Globe nomination for playing the whip smart Molly, brandishes Mr. Sorkin's rat-a-tat dialogue in verbal duels with Kevin Costner, as her psychologist father; Michael Cera, as a celebrity card shark; and Idris Elba, as her defense attorney, who can't understand why she doesn't take the government's deal — and the $4 million it confiscated from her.
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Cabo combines elements from shedding and matching type card games. It is similar to the traditional card game Golf and the 1995 Mensa Select award-winner Rat-a- Tat Cat. Cabo can also be played with a standard playing card deck, and goes under names including Cambio, Pablo and Cactus.
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Later in the year, she collaborated with Michael Stipe on the track "Rio Grande" for Johnny Depp's sea shanty album Son of Rogues Gallery, and in 2013, co-wrote and contributed vocals on "Rat A Tat" from Fall Out Boy's album Save Rock and Roll, also appearing in the song's music video.
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Chotoonz TV is a cartoon channel for kids, on YouTube and other digital platforms. Chotoonz TV predominantly features slapstick comedy cartoons such as Rat A Tat and Cat& Keet. Other content on the channel include " The Magical Toothfairies", " Chai Chai" and "The Adventures of Tenali Raman". The channel is owned by Toonz Animation.
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Dodo and Upward sing of how the British and French soldiers sacked the Imperial Summer Palace in Peking - "Rat-a-Tat-Tat". Though there are dark and savage undertones to this fairy tale, in the end, most of the British live happily ever after, and it is the Chinese who learn to know their place.
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Programs aired on the said block were The Looney Tunes Show, Rat-A-Tat, Inspector Gadget, The PowerPuff Girls (1998 series) and Mr. Bean: The Animated Series (now on Yey!) every weekday afternoons. On weekends, it airs We Bare Bears and the 2016 reboot of The Powerpuff Girls, despite it doesn't air on all feeds of Boomerang.
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Kevin Roberts. Lovemarks: the future beyond brands p.17 "[Roberts] meticulously planned the spectacle, borrowing a gun from a squad of police officers and rigging the vending machine so that he had to fire only one blank to set off a dazzling rat-a-tat-tat." From 1989 to 1997, Roberts was director and chief operating officer (COO) of Lion Nathan.
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The movement's secondary theme returns in the piano before playing a chord progression heard in the first movement. A series of fast-paced octave scales crescendo into the same "grandioso" heard in the first movement. The rat-a-tat theme returns for the final time in the movement; pentatonic chord progressions and a final F Major 6 tremolo and F major chord finish the piece.
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"In My Remains" features piano melodies and military percussion, as well as mid-tempo beats. The song has been compared to Chester Bennington's side-project Dead by Sunrise with its chanted bridge. The song has been described as a "military-like rat-a-tat". AltSounds describes the song as "a familiar laid-back striding rock vibe with catchy hooks and emotive piano chords over suitably thick chunks of percussion".
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Rat-A-Tat, also known as Pakdam Pakdai, is an Indian animated comedy TV series airing formerly on Nickelodeon India and currently airing in Sonic Nickelodeon and Nickelodeon. It is inspired by Oggy and the Cockroaches, which in turn was inspired by Tom and Jerry. The show began airing in May 2013. It now telecasts 351 episodes over five seasons on Nickelodeon Sonic but it an original show of Nickelodeon.
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The orchestra then plays a second theme with soft piano accompaniment. Variants of the main and secondary themes return. After a modulation into B-Flat major, the orchestra plays the second blues theme heard in the second movement and the piano responds with the secondary theme. The rat-a-tat rhythm returns, bridging the blues theme and the repeated note melody from the second movement, played by the orchestra.
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Collett's fifth solo album, Rat a Tat Tat (produced by O'Brien and Nicholson), was released in March 2010. His sixth release, Reckon was released in September 2012. It follows the perspective of different lives in 2012 while striking upon issues dealing with the economic crisis, corporate bailouts, and dealing with the stress of it all. Collett hosted The Courtyard Revue at Luminato Festival in June 2016 in Toronto.
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Further, the last verse of the song refers to Tupac's imagining himself being shot to death, mimicking the sound of the gun with the phrase "rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat". The Chris Hafner-directed music video is a compilation of a number of previous music videos Tupac released in addition to home videos and never-before-seen pictures, similar to the format of The Notorious B.I.G.'s "Dead Wrong", also released in 1999.
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Emily Brown has a floppy gray stuffed rabbit, Stanley, that she loves very much. They go on adventures every day, such as scuba diving, going to outer space, and other things like that. They have much fun together, until one day, they hear a "Rat-a-tat-tat at the kitchen door". It is the Queen's Footman, who wants to have Stanley (whom he calls Bunnywunny) for the Queen in exchange for a brand-new golden bear.
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Phil's sponsors included Skull Skates, Gullwing Trucks, Santa Cruz Speed Wheels (OJ Wheels), Venture Trucks, Smallroom, Zorlac Skateboards, and G&S; Skateboards. He was also featured in the skate videos "Skateboarding Inside Out" and Quiksilver's "Mondo Xtreme Experiment." Photos of Phil Esbenshade appear in the photography book, "Rat a Tat Tat Birds" by Jeff Winterberg. Esbenshade is an alumnus of the University of La Verne, earning a Juris Doctor Degree in 2003, and also attended San Diego Miramar College.
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Rat a Tat Tat is the fifth solo album by Jason Collett of Broken Social Scene. The album was released on March 9, 2010 from record label Arts & Crafts. The album was produced by Carlin Nicholson and Michael O'Brien of Toronto-based band Zeus, the album features guest musicians Andrew Whiteman, Tony Scherr and Liam O'Neil of The Stills. In promotion of the album, the label released songs, "Love Is a Dirty Word", in MP3 format.
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Open Mind Productions is a British television production company founded on June 1, 1989 by Roland Tongue and Chris Ellis. Tongue, who retired from the company at the end of 2011, was previously a film editor at the BBC, while Ellis was previously a teacher and script writer at Children's BBC. The company has produced programmes for children and educational TV, including The Number Crew, Rat-A-Tat-Tat and Maths Mansion for Channel 4 and Numberjacks and The Shiny Show for the BBC.
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During the episode, Cliff Huxtable (Bill Cosby) challenged "Mr. Sims" to a dance-off, part tribute to and part parody of Sims's real-life tap challenges, which Sims won handily. Later that same year, the Apollo Theater played host to Rat-a-Tat-Tap, another tap-dance festival, and the Sandman, "always a deserved audience favorite at tap festivals," was a featured performer there alongside his Tap co-stars Savion Glover and Gregory Hines. Sims was a featured performer at the third annual celebration of National Tap Dance Day on May 30, 1993.
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With batteries an oversize roof light lit up and the gun made a corny rat-a-tat sound. Not one of Marx's more successful toys, their Hudson was large and unwieldy, being aimed at pre- teens. After newer, more modern American cars appeared, the Marx Hudson quickly became obsolete, resulting in an oversupply on retail toy shelves. By the mid-1960s they were still easy to find across America and one could usually be bought for about a dollar – a nice discount from the original $4.95 list price.
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His work on the latter series included incidental music for several serials in the early 1980s. Other well-known series which contained music composed by Paddy Kingsland are Around the World in 80 Days and Pole to Pole, both travel series by Michael Palin. He also composed music for many schools' television series including Words and Pictures, Rat-a-tat-tat, Watch, Numbercrew, Storytime, English Express, Music Makers, Hotch Potch House and the Look and Read stories "Joe and the Sheep Rustlers" and "The Boy from Space". And Blips Since leaving the BBC, Kingsland has composed music for the KPM music library, television, commercials and corporate videos.
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Soderberg from Spin described the song as a "rap track that positions Nicki Minaj, as the brash, pop subversive in the tradition of Madonna" and criticized the latter's rapping, finding the vocals to be weak. Conversely, he appreciated Minaj's verses and vocal delivery, calling them "witty" and "confident". Keith Caulfield of Billboard called it "a very rat-a-tat-tat song"; He complimented the lengthy orchestral portion of the track and called it "epic and sweeping, but comes out of nowhere". For Matthew Perpetua of Pitchfork Media the song showed how Madonna's strong rapping was upstaged by Minaj, "who turns in an entertaining performance that is nevertheless below the standards of her usual features".
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But the movie's values are more 1988 than 2018, and that's what makes it fun, at least in spurts: Black has captured the spirit of that bygone era of adrenaline-junkie junk without getting all retro-fussy about it." He graded the film a B-. In a negative review, Dennis Harvey of Variety called it "an exhaustingly energetic mess in which a coherent plot and credible characters aren't even on the cluttered menu." Writing for Nerdist, Katie Walsh called the film "messy, chaotic, and convoluted", adding that its "comedy and action are at war with each other. Characters spew rat-a-tat quips, while tussling with Predators and their pets, essentially neutralizing the effect of both the humor and the action.
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Mixing room, 1941 Die Deutsche Wochenschau received film stock from special Wehrmacht war reporting units (Propagandakompanien) and notable cinematographers like Hans Ertl and Walter Frentz. The material was a source of footage for late Nazi propaganda films such as The Eternal Jew and The Campaign in Poland, as well as innumerable post-war documentaries. The former Tobis-Wochenschau speaker and voice-over artist Harry Giese was assigned as "the voice" of the combined German newsreel production. Despite his signature rat-a-tat narration that gives the proceedings a documentary- like tone, liberties were taken in retelling the facts in this Nazi propaganda tool.Vande Winkel, Roel, "The Auxiliary Cruiser Thor's Death and Transfiguration: a case study in Nazi wartime newsreel propaganda", Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 23, 2003, 3, pp. 211–229.
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Caroline Sullivan of The Guardian described the song as "fantastic, legs-in-the-air". Paul Flynn of the same publication wrote that it "further relegated the other members of Destiny's Child to the position of Beyoncé's backing singers". Tom Breihan of Pitchfork Media who complimented Jerkins's "incredible" drum programming and the "mind-boggling" backing track felt that it lacked a tune: "The vocals are too breathy, too whiny, and too processed, and the song's one thrilling moment-- near the end, where the harmonies get a bit of room to play off each other with ABBA-esque rococo aplomb-- lasts only for a second." Los Angeles Times writer Natalie Nichols deemed its production "nifty" with a "rat-a-tat drum line percussion propelling" but felt that it contained a single hook expanded into an entire song.
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There I would exchange a stick, so if I'm hitting down here — pop! — and hitting the cymbal — shhhap!... I was directing the energy in a very precise, meaningful way, so they helped each other out. I would hit the sound and just get it, make it go like — rat-a-tat-a-rot-a-toko!" Graves has related his martial arts activities to his interest in herbal healing, nutrition, acupuncture, and healing using sound and electrical impulses, stating "When we test the body, or we grab the body, and hit certain points and grab certain points, you’re not doing a destructive touch... You're a healing martial artist, a constructive martial artist, not a destructive martial artist... You just don't want to be somebody who learns a martial art to go out and be a bully and hurt somebody.
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During the time of its release, Illmatic brought a renewed focus on lyricism to hip hop—hearkening back to the heyday of Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, and Rakim. Music journalist Kelefa Sanneh of The New York Times wrote of Illmatic, stating that Nas "perfected a dense, rat-a-tat rhyme style that built upon the legacy of 1980s pioneers like Rakim and Big Daddy Kane." In his book To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic, William Jelani Cobb writes of Nas' impact on lyricism and the comparisons to eminent rapper Rakim at the time: Despite its initial low sales, the album had a profound impact on the hip hop underground circuit, and marked a major stylistic change in hip hop music by introducing a new standard of lyricism. Before the album's release, hip-hop lyricism was mostly defined by two popular forms.
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