Word: crescendo
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...that lets the play, through a remarkably strong and consistent group of actors, do the talking. Interpretation and polish have been concentrated, where they belong, in the difficult timing of conversations in which characters constantly interrupt one another and in the placement of peaks of hysteria in a steady crescendo of tension that could have deteriorated into a two-and-a-half hour endurance contest of lung power...
...passed out petitions and organized small demonstrations. Communist parties drummed up predictable anti-NATO sentiment. But gradually, as anger and fear began to take hold, the movement reached beyond its traditional constituencies, taking on a dimension that surprised even its organizers. Finally, this autumn it reached a crescendo. More than 2 million Western Europeans have demonstrated so far in the streets of the Continent's major cities?and weekend after weekend the huge parades...
That was only the latest salvo in a Soviet peace offensive that has been building to a crescendo over the past few months. The ultimate goal of this intense propaganda campaign is to drive a wedge between the U.S. and its Western European allies. The more immediate intent is to encourage opposition to the stationing of a new generation of U.S. medium-range missiles in Western Europe, a policy that NATO adopted in 1979 to offset the prolific deployment of SS-20s and other weapons in the western Soviet Union. Ustinov's remarks were carefully targeted and timed. Moscow...
...cast delivers it. Hanging onto a steady crescendo of comic tension, Andrew Atkinson as the reprobate Charles Surface and Michael Hasselmo as his dignified uncle-with-the-money square off over a Dunster pool table, drawing more and more delicious rhythm from the lines as they gain confidence...
...announced troop deployment, coming in the wake of a Central Committee threat to declare martial law, had ominous implications. So did the crescendo of official warnings against carrying out the planned national strike. Early in the week, authorities declared that Solidarity's walkout "would be met with actions commensurate with the threat." A group of party hard-liners raised the chilling possibility of "shedding fraternal blood." Moreover, the Soviet news agency TASS reported that "counterrevolutionary" forces were using the strike to "blackmail" the Warsaw regime...