Word: crescendo
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lack of melody, the band make nearly every song a midtempo crescendo...
...Repair," both of which showcase Maida's raw vocals and his ability to push his voice into octaves clearly above his natural register. "Are You Sad?" departs from the album's largely solid beat structure, gently balancing verse and chorus until finally erupting into an emotionally charged crescendo...
...either end; Yu climbs up to stand on Yen's shoulders; finally they pole-vault to safety as Yam falls below to be impaled and roasted. (Rule No. 1: at the end of a Yuen movie, nearly anyone is likely to catch on fire.) Piling impossible climax on incredible crescendo, the 5-min. scene plays like a war of the titans in a child's playground of Hell...
...recitation of the good deeds that will put one on the path to the Pearly Gates - it proves to be a one-track demonstration of almost every weapon in the Possum's considerable vocal arsenal. The first line is understated, almost spoken. The second builds. The third is a crescendo, culminating in what must be the most fabulous single-syllable word ever recorded; I counted at least eight distinct notes. Then later in the song he does the same word again - and treats it quite differently. Quite simply, no one else is capable of such vocal fireworks - or at least...
...work in Russia's latest challenge to Washington. Moscow's military establishment looked on with alarm throughout the '90s as Yeltsin compromised their strategic interests in exchange for financial handouts from the West. The seditious grumbling over NATO's expansion onto Russia's eastern European doorstep reached a crescendo during last year's Kosovo campaign. President Putin built his election campaign around the military's brutal assault on Chechnya - a hapless attempt to restore its lost honor - and vowed to restore Russian power. Despite such humiliations as the Kursk submarine disaster, Putin has set about modernizing his armed forces...