Word: crescendo
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...sequence. Perhaps this ties the two together in the reader's mind, but the device becomes irritatingly cute after the first dozen or so uses. More bothersome is his scheme of omitting a handful of climatic events of the story, and saving them for a sort of catch-all crescendo...
Hitting a new high in mediocrity, the plot of "Road to Rio" lurches along pathetically from one tiny crescendo to the next, leaving in its wake the battered carcasses of every stock situation the film's makers could find on the Paramount lot. A picture with some fast, funny slapstick, or even a loud, nerve-numbing orchestra, could perhaps survive such a story treatment, but this one throws in the towel early in the evening...
...members of his American Federation of Musicians to stop making all recordings and radio transcriptions after Dec. 31. He was playing a familiar tune. He had once cracked: "What do I care about science; my boys gotta eat." But this time Caesar Petrillo brought his tune to a crashing crescendo. Said he: "We stop making recordings once and for all-period...
...down to its simplest terms. Into the House chamber walked California's Helen Gahagan Douglas with a shopping basket which she toted right up to the microphone. She had used the same shopping list last June, when the items in the basket totaled $10. Now, in a horrifying crescendo, she rattled off the post-OPA increases: butter, from 65? to 82?; eggs, 53? to 69?; two pounds of pork chops ("the poor man's meat"), 76? to $1.46. The new total...
...inspiring wife, Edna. The only other standout in a very competent cast was John Mann, who in the difficult role of Agate Keller was almost perfect, setting a fine pace at the beginning of his famous closing speech and faltering only in his failure to maintain a crescendo of voice until the final cry of "Strike...