Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gaudiest organ sounds outside the Roxy are mixed with some in a more reposeful vein in these nine pieces. Among the best: Bartok's En Bateau, a flashy, seasick impression of a boatride; Copland's Episode, a neat vignette that builds from nearly nothing to a roiling climax; Milhaud's delicately tinted Pastorale; Messiaen's mystical Le Banquet Celeste...
...wife possessed. From the very beginning there developed an unreasoning fear and jealousy of anyone with whom I had contact . . . There began a calculated campaign to transfer to her every material asset that I owned and a constant threat to accuse me of imaginary infidelities . . . This pattern reached its climax in the early part of 1945, when I was repeatedly faced with the demand that I acknowledge these imaginary happenings, and, as she put it, 'purge my soul.' She stated that if I once did this, she would forever cease these demands and begin our marital life anew...
...moderates, left Socialists, and the old Druze chieftain, Sultan Pasha el Atrash - met secretly, organized the Popular Bloc, and agreed to bury their hatchet -in Shishekly's back. Still Shishekly did nothing. Three weeks ago, emboldened, the Popular Bloc plotted the final act, the overthrow of Shishekly. The climax was set for the night of Wednesday...
...Wild One (Stanley Kramer; Columbia) is a percussion piece played on the moviegoer's nerves, a kind of audiovisual fugue in which the themes of boogie and terror heap up in alternations of juke-yowl and gear-gnash to a climax of violence-and then fall patly silent, leaving the audience to console its disordered pulse and unsweat itself from the seat...
...Five saxophones took up the melody, sweetly and a bit hoarsely, and then seven brasses began to clip into it with cross rhythms. Suddenly the snare drum cut loose with the effect of a burp gun, and the whole band leaped into ear-crushing chords and rammed home the climax...