Word: crescendoe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dissolving & Sounding. The difference in vibration rate creates a variety of shapes, whose momentary and only semivisible quality makes the observer look sharp, as they shift, change, swell to a musiclike crescendo, and subside to quiescence. One Tangible resembles a fencer's foil set upon its hilt. As it picks up speed, the foil appears to dissolve into a flashing egg-shape. Another Tangible is a tower of aluminum rings suspended at artful intervals on almost invisible wires. Vibration makes the rings spin and lift like a quicksilver ballet. Plinth (see cut) carries sound as well as motion...
...themselves. Where would they find a summer substitute for Sanders? Worse yet, where will they find a substitute in the fall? By then, Felicia will probably be in Los Angeles with her son Jeff, 13, and her husband-accompanist, Irv Joseph. "Milton Berle wants to present me at the Crescendo," she says, and adds with a wry smile, "I'm still being discovered all the time...
...evening she brought Steffie to a party, stuck the child in a wicker basket and put her in a closet to sleep. Later the party moved off in search of a progressive jazz pianist who was never found. Far later it wound up at a nightspot called the Crescendo. Steffie was still in the closet, sleeping peacefully...
...slogans in villages two of his young partisans have been charged with sedition. When another U Nu supporter was arrested, 500 of his party members, loyal to the new spirit of jolly nonviolence, embarrassed the cops by banging on cymbals, playing flutes, and beating drums in a shrill crescendo of musical disapproval...
This jabberwockian fantasy is not the handiwork of a beat generation poet, but the nightly stock in trade of the nation's slickest new vocal group-the Lambert, Hendricks and Ross trio. In Los Angeles' Crescendo Club last week, the three performers triple-tongued their way through these lines (to Everyday) and half a dozen other numbers. What they were up to was a startling vocal and verbal imitation of instrumental jazz, particularly the big-band style of the 1930s. The whisky drinkers, like the trio's record fans, dug the act with the fervor...