Word: crescendoe
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...moment was superbly stage-managed. Just as the chairman of Yugoslavia's Federal Assembly finished his announcement that Josip Broz Tito had been re-elected as the country's President for the sixth time, a side door was flung open. To a crescendo of applause, Tito himself stepped into the crowded marble-walled chamber. Deeply tanned, smiling broadly and dressed impeccably in a white tropical suit, he looked remarkably...
...from Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger and Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird are recalled by some with bitterness. How many P.O.W. families share the disenchantment is impossible to determine. But Mrs. Fuller voices a biting new version of the briefings: "Now that I know about 'orchestration' and 'crescendo' and all those beautiful words they use for war-which makes you think you should hear violins instead of tears-I begin to get the feeling lately that I'm in the middle of a scenario, and the President is leading it with a baton...
...begins thinking the unthinkable. The very notion of marriage is enough to make Jonathan forsake her bod and board. But the "relationship" persists until Bobbie releases her ultimate weapon: sleep. She snores on for eight, ten, finally 15 hours a day until, in the film's most effective crescendo, Jonathan pops like a light bulb, scattering shards of himself around the screen...
...thorough search of the orchard country around Yuba City, Calif., a normally placid town (pop. 13,986) on the Feather River 45 miles north of Sacramento. Using shovels and finally a tractor with a scoop, the deputies turned up body after body; by late last week, continuing a crescendo of horror, they had found 21 bodies-mostly of middle-aged white itinerant farm workers, all of them apparently hacked to death with a heavy knife like a machete...
...symmetry of the ballet?choreographed by Follies Co-Director Michael Bennett?is never violated for a quarter-note. When an old girl turns, her "reflection" makes the selfsame move in reverse, a feat whose parallel can only be found in the trickery that cinema allows. The second crescendo is Alexis Smith's Story of Lucy and Jessie, a flame-red, high-kicking number in the old top-hat-and-tails tradition, an echo of a Cole Porter patter song...