Word: build-up
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...amazing thing is that the promotional build-up for the record ends up being true once you've listened to it long enough. This cacophony of calls becomes something truly beautiful and soothing. It's not exactly the record you'd sit down and listen to with your parents while sipping after-dinner brandy-unless they're part of the new breed of over-30 freaks. But as a background to whatever you're doing or any mental trauma you're going through, whales are magnificent companions. There they are, singing to one another and a zoologist's hydrophones, telling...
...clear influence of The Band in their concern, respectively, for the history of the old American South and the ever-present pain of growing old. It is an influence freely and proudly conceded by the composers. One thing most of the songs have in common is a relentless rhythmic build-up from a quiet beginning. Burn Down the Mission, for example, starts out like' a country stroll and ends like a hell-bent Georgia stagecoach...
...Defense Department had had accurate means of determining how the North Vietnamese people and the Viet Cong would react to an American troop build-up, Deutsch said, the Pentagon could have predicted the trend toward escalation and avoided it. Instead, Washington based its policy on the mistaken idea that large numbers of guerillas would desert rather than face a long war, be added. In that instance, Deutsch explained, the Pentagon could have furthered the interests of peace through the application of social science research...
After that kind of build-up, the most frequently heard description of "the Student's Role" would contain exhortations for militant action to end the universities' prostitution. Nader seemed to be on his way there when he said that the students of the last two years have taught everyone a clear lesson: university administrations are more responsive to physical stimulus than ethical pleas. "Isn't it a disgrace that it took the physical displacement of a few men called deans to get larger numbers of students and faculty finally to face important issues...
...varying degrees of goodness, with many many Beatle-like touches of genius (the glittering horns and Paul's singing in "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"; the two tempos in "Helter-Skelter"--Ringo's medium and George's very fast and the precise interchange between them; the ponderous massive build-up to an electrifying flourish in "I'm So Tired"); but they are too often only unsustained touches...