Word: crescendo
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Clearly, the sound and fury of that November afternoon signified something. Harvard, which had to climb out of more holes than Punxsutawney Phil last year, commandeered a 21-0 lead and made the Bulldogs play catch-up. And, as the tension swelled to a crescendo, Harvard checkmated Yale at midfield on the Elis' final drive...
...came such groups as the Children of God and the Divine Light Mission, est and the Church of Scientology, the robotic political followers of Lyndon LaRouche and the Unification Church of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon. On Nov. 18, 1978, the cultism of the '70s arrived at its dark crescendo in Jonestown, Guyana, where more than 900 members of Jim Jones' Peoples Temple died at his order, most by suicide...
...history, and one worth recalling today, as the air grows thicker with politically opportunistic denunciations of the immigrant--as though America was ever anything but an immigrant society. Barron's timing is impeccable, but this is not the kind of show that offers a continuous visual feast or a crescendo of visual achievement. It is heavy (and has to be) with information, pamphlets, books, press clippings, old exhibition catalogs. It comes up with some intensely interesting and little-known figures, such as Varian Fry, the Scarlet Pimpernel of cultural rescue, who after 1940 ran an emergency committee whose task...
...presence of independent films has finally reached the crescendo we have anticipated throughout the 90s. Rather than a single My Left Foot or The Crying Game to represent the Little Film, this year's oddball is Jerry Maguire, the only Hollywood project to earn a slot in the Picture race. The somnambulists who voted in featherweight tripe like Scent of a Woman and Field of Dreams are finally hibernating where they belong. As Shakespeare once apostrophized, "Studios, studios, where art thou, studios...
...direct conduit to a high-paying job. Easy financial credit, moreover, made it possible for parents to borrow large sums of money; doing so for college became more socially acceptable. From 1983 through 1988, the number of applications to Penn rose 25%, despite the cost. "It was a crescendo," Meyerson says. "People were willing to spend an awful lot more for collegiate education...