Avoid the planned ex-pat communities like Discovery Bay that remain separate from the life and rhythm of the city.

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Co-written by Xiu and director Hanawa Yukinari, the film suffers an occasional lapse in continuity, but is fascinating both for its evenhanded look at life among Tokyo's alien population, as well as for its attempts to capture visually the rhythm of the city without endings.

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Billups credited the Grizzlies for never letting them get into a rhythm or their Lob City run and gun approach.

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The city has its own rhythm, which takes a little while to hear: it is a complex but playful raga, a gliding, light-footed dance that all of Mumbai seems to know.

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The city has a pulse, a rhythm that makes it feel alive, awake somehow if not sentient, then at least organic.

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Drummer Shannon Powell represented the city's Treme neighborhood with a panoply of rhythm and a kick drum that bumped the metered funk of Zigaboo Modeliste, the early stomp of Baby Dodds and the bamboula beat of the Caribbean.

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"Hong Kong has a stair culture which is typified by a certain slowness and rhythm that has defined a way of life and attitude in the areas of the city with steep topography, " said Melissa Cate Christ, an associate professor of landscape architecture at the University of Hong Kong.

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But there is a rhythm to that noise -- a beat, a municipal pulse that resonates in the city's soul.

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