Word: crescendoe
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...follows the grim process of making men of them. Naked torsos are lined up in a sterile examination room like sheep. Barbers briskly shear them. Then come the relentless weeks of screamed orders and merciless reprimands ("Hey, stupid, you shave this morning?" "Get that crummy chin up!"), reaching a crescendo in the savagery of bayonet drill. "Downward slash!" barks the drillmaster. "You know what that means." At that point, the Paris audience invariably gasps...
When Kennedy entered the Garden, the crowd there maintained 15 minutes of solid, uncontrolled cheering, interspersed with even louder round of "We Want Jack." As the nominee waved to separate sections of the Garden, the audience in each area increased its pitch even higher to an unbelievable crescendo...
...Rank; 20th Century-Fox) suggests that if few figures in the movie world can fill Alfred Hitchcock's trousers, fewer still are qualified to retrace his Steps. The 1935 Hitchcock version of The 39 Steps that starred Madeleine Carroll and the late Robert Donat was a sensitively controlled crescendo of excitement-perhaps the best .chase picture of its generation. The new version, directed by Britain's Ralph (Doctor in the House) Thomas, is simply a pleasant little comedy of murders...
...high point in The Music Man at Broadway's Majestic Theater, the melody of Till There Was You climbs and blazes in a crescendo of awakening love between Bert Parks and his shy sweetheart. The baton in the orchestra pit below is not wielded by the usual bald male conductor, but by a very pretty young lady who might have just defected from the chorus onstage. With striking Titian-red hair, plus face and figure to match, Liza Redfield has the looks for anything except what she is: Broadway's first fulltime woman conductor...
...Kennedy, he appeared nightly on local television over station KHJ (the call letters, he said, stand for "Kennedy Hates Johnson"), nibbled petits fours and strawberries while matching attitudes with Senators, Governors, showfolk and intellectuals, including a bewildered Max Lerner. Sahl also did two shows a night at the Crescendo on Sunset Strip and managed to write at least one newspaper column each day, mainly for Hearst. First and still the best of the New Comedians whose specialty is topical humor, Mort Sahl, 33, is emerging as the most successful political satirist in the U.S., a sort of Will Rogers with...