Word: crescendoe
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...chairman of the protesters' meeting, Weinrub had put forward no opinion whatever on how Land should be questioned-and as a result, his accusers, with the active participation of CRR members, launched into an inquiry of Weinrub's political views. One CRR member brought the questioning to a crescendo by asking Weinrub to confess that he would have helped prevent Land's speech if the South Africa issue went unresolved...
Attempting to reveal pyschology through music, Director Russell makes every character grotesque, every bar of music programmatic. Ballets are transformed into pastoral scenes, concertos into imaginary duels. In a crescendo of vulgarity, the 1812 Overture becomes, in Tchaikovsky's beleaguered brain, an execution. Each cannon shot lops off the head of a tormentor: sister (Sabina Maydelle), patron, lover...
...style, head-'em-off-at-the-gulch variety, but jeans in every color from apricot to zinc and fabrics that range from plain corduroys, velours and gabardines to showier crushed velvets, suedes, leathers and even fur. Boston's Jordan Marsh Co. reports jeans sales at "a crescendo"; Chicago's Saks Fifth Avenue puts the boom at "wildfire proportions, even among older women." Five years ago, there was not a single jeans store in the country. Now there are more than...
...then the Elvis engagement opened. All through August, leading up to a Labor Day crescendo, Angelinos were making the trek through the desert. "The greatest nightclub act ever," they reported back. (None of us stopped to think that in a world
Still, This Man Must Die is no academic fame-dropping mystery, all allusion and no frisson. From the opening footage to the ambiguous fadeout, the viewer is kept one crescendo behind, one clue away. Central to the story is the father's diary, in which he notes his lethal intentions. When the killer is ruthlessly expunged, the mystery has only begun...