Word: crescendo
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...number which brought the first act to a close: a group of young (aged 6-14?) black kids from Manhattan joined Labelle on stage to lend their smiling faces and beautiful voices to a crescendo of emotional outpouring--a chorus of love and hope for the future. The sight of those three ladies singing with and to and for the children, sharing their microphones with individual kids, hugging them, standing arm in arm in comradeship, brought me and several others to tears. Could you find this "in Times Square on any given Saturday night...
...only way she can stay in the country is as the wife of an American citizen. The designer accepts the proposal, persuaded by the offer of a $25,000 fee and frequent flashes of cleavage from the other side of the table. After that comes the familiar crescendo of scare scenes. Parkins evaporates, but the bewitched Haskell traces her to a secluded-is there any other kind-mansion, where he is promptly zapped. That is followed by a defenestration, a complicated underworld search and a huge conflagration...
...calm was undoubtedly the result of a carefully orchestrated campaign by the military to discredit Haile Selassie. It reached a crescendo last Wednesday, the Ethiopian New Year and the day before the Emperor's ouster. For the first time, Patriarch Abuna Teweoflos of the Ethiopian Orthodox (Christian) Church did not mention the Emperor-head of the church to which half the Ethiopians belong-in his sermon. Instead, the patriarch asked God's blessing for the officers' movement. Later in the day the coordinating committee broadcast a scathing attack on Haile Selassie, denouncing him for erecting statues...
...ROSALITA" is a juicy, scat-sung Van Morrison-type song in which Springsteen wants to steal away his girl friend from her parents to spend what seems to be a life-long communal orgy in the hangouts of New York. The song builds up to a seemingly final crescendo with terrific fast loud chorus. Where can he go from here? But the music keeps on--you feel like shouting. Then all of a sudden it is happening, the entire band is standing up there in the studio, chanting "HEY, HEY, HEY, HEY, HEY"--it is like the Ohio State football...
From the long corridor of people came a roar that built into a crescendo. "We've got a winner," the man to the right yelled. The radio reports had been right, for striding down the asphalt, flanked by police motorcycles, was Neil Cusack of East Tennessee State, eating up the last few yards. Far above, the Prudential Center loomed in the suddenly grey sky as the crowd whistled and screamed its approval...