Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...follows shadow on a dappled day. As Joan strides through her story, the lights minister her mood and clothe her in whatever world she needs as vividly as any scenery could, while the responsive scrim behind her glitters with cathedral glass or glooms with dungeon night. The climax comes in her quenchless defiance of the inquisition: "What I am. I will not denounce. What I have done, I will not deny...
Organization plays a key role in every service clash. Cheering and half-time ceremonies are planned long before the two student bodies leave for the game. All the planning reaches a climax as the future officers march onto the field shortly before the game begins. And after they run to their seats for the kickoff the roars that follow every play throughout the game literally explode from the stands...
...music did not sound much more inspired than the book. Most of the time the orchestra played far below the singers, as if it were off in another studio (it was), and in one dramatic crowd scene, where orchestra and singers are supposed to rise to a crashing climax, the climax faded out, as if the sound had got to be too much for the engineers, and they had put their hands to the controls (they...
...that of Harvard's Edward Filmanowicz, who played sonatas by Beethoven and Faure with superb piano accompaniment by Robert Freeman. Filmanowicz was fiery and exciting, and brought out all the dramatic aspects of the music. His tone was somewhat ascetic at times, but his sense of pace and climax brought the music to life...
...whole, the show is strong enough to carry its weak parts. It starts with one of the friskiest and funniest ballets ever seen on screen: a sort of midtown montage of pimps and policemen, dips and drabs, teens and touts that comes to a climax in a hilarious antiphony of horse-players as they peruse what Runyon called "the morning bladder." In fact, from first to last-and the last dance is a thrilling choreography, set in a picturesque sewer, of the primordial rite of dice-Michael Kidd has staged his ballets even more effectively than he did on Broadway...