Word: crescendo
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...troops across the border to attack Hizballah strongholds throughout southern Lebanon and clear a "security zone" that may eventually stretch to around three miles inside Lebanese territory. With diplomatic pressure mounting for an end to the fighting, the Israeli military seems to be bringing its campaign to a crescendo aimed at inflicting maximum damage on Hizballah in the campaign's remaining days or weeks...
...opponent?s zipper problem) and then becomes self-congratulatory, boasting about the insurgent primary challenge to Joe Lieberman, where the incumbent now leads by only 55-40. The message of these triumphs? That the ?riffraff? has triumphed over the elite. It?s all very empowering, though the speech?s crescendo is about how the liberal blogosphere propelled Stephen Colbert?s White House Correspondents? dinner speech into the No. 1 spot on iTunes. As wins go, it seems symbolic at best. But what a symbol! The mainstream media is obsolete! ?We don?t need them!? ?We can now choose for ourselves...
...song builds to a massive crescendo under lyrics ("It's too late to make it right/ I probably wouldn't if I could/ 'Cause I'm mad as hell/ Can't bring myself to do what it is you think I should") that are explicitly clear. Those who loathe the Dixie Chicks will never get to the end, while those who love them will listen once, say Yeah! and probably not need to go back. It works better as a referendum than as a pop song, but as Robison says, "We wrote it for ourselves, for therapy. Whether...
...student choreography was ironically the piece that started out the weakest. “Talisman” by Marin J. D. Orlosky ’07, who is also a Crimson editor, began with choppy and un-syncopated choreography that grew more emotive, cohesive and theatrical with the crescendo of the music, the mood and the progression of the story. The best moment was when the figures convened downstage left in a complexly interwoven and motive-driven formation. “Talisman” best utilized the intense musicality of its original score, composed by Inyang M. Akpan...
...constant scribbling on the walls or Orpheus’s pacing, and protracting moments like the silence when Orpheus loses Eurydice, which lasts for several agonizing but transfixing minutes. He refuses to put the brakes on and give the audience room to relax, making the play one long crescendo. “Orpheus X” is also one of the most technically interesting and virtuosic plays I have ever seen. A video designed by Denise Marika—from flowing honey in a scene in which Eurydice relates a dream involving bees (cleverly, her dream relates...