Word: crescendoe
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...after day the noises out of Red China sounded increasingly explosive. By week's end, they had reached a crescendo. This obviously was another climax in the unfolding spectacle of China's chaos, and the story that had been developing all week grew into a cover story. TIME correspondents in the Far East (where it was Sunday morning) and elsewhere were asked to update their reports. Writer Jason McManus and Editor Edward Jamieson, assisted by Researcher Sara Collins, went to work on a new version...
...setting of the father's long monologue: "You know the church, Edward. It's where the chickens always block the road if you're out driving." Throughout, the prose moderates the shock of surrealistic events by its quiet, measured tones; yet it can rise harmoniously to a rather violent crescendo...
...Hell's Angels, high school dropouts and stay-ins alike, pile in by the thousands to writhe to the electronic thunder of the Byrds, the Jefferson Airplane and the New Generation in such clubs as It's Boss (formerly Giro's), The Trip (once the Crescendo) and Pandora's Box. Teen Idols Sonny & Cher invented folk rock there and, at the same time, set off the craze for ruffled bellbottoms. The Strip became the perfect place for flaunting rebellion, for catching the latest underground movie at the Cinematheque and for trying on the newest fads, from...
...Braun. Which he does. And then he takes the girl away with him to the Outerlands. Which he does. And the whole thing will end with the two of them -- Lemmy and Natasha -- tooling down the highway out of Alphaville with the strings coming up in a crashing crescendo, Which it does...
...been clear for weeks that China was heading for some sort of momentous crescendo, but no one knew exactly what to expect. Last week, as the impact of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution abruptly spilled out across the land, the nightmare of it all became chillingly clear. Mao Tse-tung aimed to blot out not only all traces of foreign influence, but to tear out China's own cultural and historical roots as well...