Word: crescendoe
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...first couple of outbursts sweep the audience and send fits of chills running up and down the spine; but since emotional climaxes are reached in scene after scene, the final tragic highlight of the musical, Jacob Zulu's verdict, loses much of its passionate appeal. The crescendo of the play has been reached by the middle of the first act, and no additional pumping up the volume will have any more effect upon already aching ears...
Such well-intended confusion reaches a crescendo for Forbes when it comes to health care, an issue that exemplifies his intellectual style. On one hand he delights in bucking the consensus of officials and analysts in both parties, saying it's wrong for Washington to tell us we're spending too much of our national income on health. If that's what the market wants, so be it. In the next breath, however, he reverts to the standard observation that health markets don't work right. "Having the illusion that someone else is paying [through insurance]," Forbes says...
...scene, Travis's cab emerges on to the screen from a Dantean burst of steam like a metallic beast as Bernard Herrman's eerie score beats to a crescendo. A close-up of Travis's wide-open eyes reflects the gaudy neon lights of 42nd Street porn shops, as he absorbs the world about him for a fare. At times, his passivity seems to reappear in his actions. Travis sees the "pow-pow" finger motion of a fellow cabbie and imitates it later--in a drastically different context, perhaps suggesting how Travis is shaped by the world around...
...whole affair is held together by Rushdie's swift, lyrical, humorous style--or, mostly held together. The novel lacks the brilliant closure of Midnight's Children. Some avenues end artlessly, while others take too many twists. But the story never slows down long enough to get stuck. The crescendo, the penultimate action of the novel, is a manic and violent script worthy of John Woo direction...
...tired Hillary Clinton told CNN she probably will not testify before the Senate Whitewater Committee. "There is no substance to these allegations," the First Lady said. "Eventually people will understand that." The crescendo of accusations, she maintained, has one cause: the political ambitions of Republicans. "What we said about Whitewater in the beginning has been proven true," Mrs Clinton said, referring to a government investigation of Whitewater that exonerated the Clintons. "I think the American public is fair and smart and will be able to make their own judgment...