Word: crescendoed
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...already knew. The roar of the crowd was swelling as Sarah checked off jumps and spins with the precision of a sharpshooter until the crescendo drowned out the last few seconds of her music. When Sarah's final spin circled to a halt, John and Amy ran inside and joined in the thunderous applause for their 16-year-old daughter's history-making performance last Thursday. After her "top this" scores were posted, Hughes slipped backstage and did something she had never done before at the end of a competition--she called her mother. "Mom, I did it," she said...
Their hour-long set of crowd-chanting, mosh-pitting anthems was punctuated by three notable moments. The first was a series of solos—initially, DJ Sid “#0” (who wears a gas-mask), a turntable master, scratched and spun in an ever-quickening crescendo as strobe lights flickered; the second spotlighted the drummer—the kabuki-masked musician drummed at a hellish pace while his drum set floated upside down and rotated above the stage. Slipknot’s second highlight was their final track, “Surfacing...
...outset, Sound-Dust has the markings of sublimity. The opening track, titled “Black Ants in Sound-Dust,” is a synth-driven instrumental piece that opens with a bassline and one-note melody but builds to a crescendo of insistent hums, chirps and honks. The piece has a latent tension that uncontrollably bursts, and for Stereolab, whose works are meticulously arranged, it is a tantalizing development...
...outside Srinagar, next to the Mazar-e-Shohda Muslim cemetery, where thousands of the conflict's dead, including guerrilla commanders, lie buried. The crowd is full of relatives of the vanished?the elderly, parents, widows, children?who live in a state of suspended bereavement. Gentle weeping builds to a crescendo of wailing that sweeps the crowd, enveloping veteran reporters on its sidelines. Roomie Khan, 5, Aadil Badyarie, 6, and Aashiq Hussain Bhat, 8, step forward and put the first stone in place. Each of the children lost their fathers before they were born. The plan for the memorial...
...rather neat crescendo, this week's increasingly meaty tidbits took care of that. The further investigations into Condit's correspondence with Anne Marie Smith. The minister whose then-18-year-old daughter had had her own affair with Condit and feared for her own safety. And finally the on-camera appearance of the police, searching Condit's apartment before setting out among the dumpsters and abandoned buildings of Adams Morgan...