Word: crescendo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...documentary specials for Sunday afternoons. The CBS schedule is so tight that the four Frank Capra-produced Bell Telephone science shows had to move over to NBC. Splashiest of all will probably be The Du Pont Show of the Month, offering ten 90-minute spectaculars: Paul Gregory's Crescendo, a mishmash of American music with Ethel Merman, Rex Harrison, Louis Armstrong, Carol Channing and Peggy Lee; Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper; a musical edition of Junior Miss; and a Cole PorterS. J. Perelman musicollaboration on Alladin. To plug the Ford Motor...
However, Giraudoux fails to maintain a balance between ideas and spicy French sex, and the play becomes bikini. Interspersed with rationalistic salvos are a crescendo of kisses, lovers entwined like vine leaves on a Greek frieze and racy gods until the romp is reduced to a gala Gallic gaiety and the comedy verges on hedonism. Frankly, three hours of the bed become boring...
Hyman did the role of Othello off-Broadway three or four years ago. Though I was not able to see it, I understand it was a wild and explosive interpretation. Since then Hyman has thought a great deal more about the part, and now performs it in a controlled crescendo. He has felt driven toward Huston's kind of "subdued conception." The difference is that Hyman accomplished in three years what took Huston three decades...
...getting enraged too soon; consequently as the play progresses they try to bellow and shriek ever more loudly until the limit of intelligibility has been left far behind. But Hyman is careful to adjust to the big time scale of this process, so that the proper prolonged Beethovenian crescendo results. For, contrary to the popular conception, Othello is not by nature disposed toward jealousy: he is "one not easily jealous, but being wrought perplex'd in the extreme." He says of his wife, for example, "I'll tear her all to pieces." Most actors would here face the balcony...
After three years of scientific experiment (at a cost of some $200 million) and a storm of politico-moral argument that had risen to a shrill crescendo over the past fortnight, Britain last week dropped its first H-bomb off Christmas Island. 1,160 miles south of Hawaii...