Word: crescendoe
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...long time ago, in the days when the young might get stoned and watch 2001 and listen as Also Sprach Zarathustra blared in crescendo, the millennium was heavy. It was far out. It was also far off. But now, here it is--just on the other side of Bill Clinton's new term, at the end of his famous bridge. Did Dick Morris arrange this...
What's needed to ward off incipient rallentando is a big, distracting counternoise, a Zarathustra crescendo. No one would wish Bill Clinton to achieve exactly the second-term salvation--if that is the word--that history arranged for Franklin Roosevelt. F.D.R.'s second term represented a fairly dramatic falling off from the brisk exuberance of the first. Roosevelt tried to pack the Supreme Court, with humiliating results. The Great Depression ground on. Abroad, the international order began to disintegrate. America split bitterly over what, if anything, to do about it. All of this set the stage for F.D.R. to transcend...
...delve deep enough in evoking the "real" characters' interaction with one another. The imagined children take up a little more space than even the play seems to intend with its experimenting with the idea of concocted narratives. By turns amusing and perplexing, the production dutifully brought things to a crescendo, but missing a few interesting bits along...
...children at play in the street, as if to sense that their lives will never lose this frivolous emptiness, that the games will only get more complex, the stakes higher. The soundtrack alternates between Hitchcock-esque legibility, with every twist in the plot accompanied by a clashy crescendo, and a Eliot-esque silence, the whisper that signals the end of the world...
...storm cloud, but Wilson isn't given to flashy lightning vocals. She finds emotion in restraint -- her voice murmurs low like distant thunder, or strikes a brief, bright note, like sunlight after rain. New Moon Daughter stands as Wilson?s most emotionally rewarding album, a mellow but challenging crescendo of themes from her past work...