Word: crescendoe
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...January 1993, economic and personal desperation reached a tragic and nearly fatal crescendo within my Little Brother's family. What followed was an urban social services nightmare even people like Bob Coles would find difficult to narrate. I will never forget my Little Brother's small, trembling body as he lost himself in the temporary safety of my embrace in the cold, dark corridor of his apartment building that awful day. As I walked back to Quincy House, by way of Harvard street, I paused between snowflakes, tears frozen to my cheeks, enraged that I couldn't save him from...
Gloom never settled so quickly, before the foot lights as when Silver decides to preach issues. Pterodactyls does not descend emotional crests, it, plunges from them. In a Kathleen Turneresque growl, Grace bear down on Tommy with a triumphant speech, reaching the peak of her comic crescendo only to be interrupted by a gun discharging upstairs. Utter silence falls with the curtain as Todd intones. "Suddenly it became very cold." Manipulation reigns as Silver's king principle of craft...
...with a tight and rocking "All Along the Watchtower." The "Standing on the Moon" that followed turned out to be the highlight of the show. Like "So Many Roads," "Standing" ended with Garcia repeating the chorus ("I'd rather be here with you" in this case) into a thrilling crescendo that brought the whole band to a boil and the crowd to a roar...
...obscure to describe what he is doing here. The subtlety of Kieslowski's plot is where the beauty of this film radiates. The viewer only realizes after the film is over the idiosyncratic nature of the events which have unfolded. They have unfolded simply and smoothly, without crash or crescendo, making the story believable. This story could not be told in some fairy tale because this fairy tale is real life. These are what real people do. These are the motives which cause real people to act, to weep, to have sex, and ultimately to suffer...
...take Major League II, Emilio Estevez in the noisome D2), the hero will go soft until he rediscovers the heart and guts he needs to be a man again. His team will lose early and win late, fall behind and catch up. The good guys win, to an orchestral crescendo (Rudy, for example, is a symphony with a movie attached). They are carried off on the shoulders of a cheering mob -- just the way we'd all like to end our workday...