Word: crescendoe
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...California governorship and the White House by doing radio commentary. Jackson's advisers hope the show will present a "cooler" Jesse Jackson than the image viewers usually get. "Most people only know Jesse from a 20-to-30-second snippet of a speech, where he's near a crescendo," says longtime aide Frank Watkins. "In TV terms he's 'hot,' and he scares the bejesus out of white people...
...crescendo of toppling communist dominoes shook Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, 71, vowed that reform would come to Rumania "when pears grow on poplar trees." He ignored warnings from Gorbachev that he should begin easing up before it was too late to avoid violence. After 24 years of ruling by fear, Ceausescu rejected the idea of change...
...public's demands as East Germany's rulers. Thousands flee the country, protesters stage hunger strikes in churches, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev offers a gentle lecture in person -- none of it seemed to make a difference. But last week as the cries for democratic reform reached a crescendo in cities across East Germany, the leaders in East Berlin demonstrated that their hearing faculties were intact -- and that they were distressed by the rising noise level...
Although Arnowitt's technical command of the works was evident from the beginning the performance was almost too controlled and too precise in the first portion of the program. Several crescendo passages in the first and last movements of the first sonata seemed tentative and lacking in the forceful intensity that the listener expected. In addition several of the piano passages were uneven in tone. His rendition of a passage in the Largo appassionata movement of the second sonata, however was breathtaking in its delicate beauty...
Ironically, blame might rest with the success of Gorbachev's glasnost campaign. The call for openness has given rise to a crescendo of grumbling that has become grist for news reports calling attention to the shortage of consumer goods. Public debate has also offered hints of divisiveness at the top. Last week Pravda published a letter, penned by six influential conservative writers, that attacked the weekly magazine Ogonyok, a leading light of glasnost, for abusing the new openness by distorting history. The letter could not have appeared in the Communist Party daily without support from some top-ranking party members...