Word: crescendoed
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...fair share of renovations? One week the students could commandeer a shuttle bus; the next week Hilles; and finally, during reading period, a coordinated attack on the Quadrangle kitchens. Amid the shattering plastic and shrieks of Quaddish fervor, two hisses of rustling paper will rise to a crescendo and drown out the actual event...
...chilly drizzle fell on the 100 identical gray tombstones. As a pair of women sobbed quietly, Kim Young Sam and Lee Min Woo, two of South Korea's foremost opposition leaders, entered the cemetery and solemnly laid a wreath beside the graves. The women's keening rose in a crescendo. For a moment, the visitors stood together in silence, recalling the hundreds killed by government troops in Kwangju after a student uprising six years...
...treats us to a perfunctory conclusion. Cornish becomes an eccentric collector; Cornish makes a few friends; Cornish deeply hurts one of his dear friends who then kills himself; Cornish dies. They are all very unsatisfying, these brief sketches of the elder Cornish, and they lead us nowhere. The crescendo of the story, which amounts to one of Cornish's dear friends asking him for money to buy one of Cornish's own medieval-style masterpieces falls very flat...
Pains are taken in the staging to highlight the interdependency of these voices- to reiterate that they are not each a character, but part of one. They jump in on each other's lines, finishing thoughts and emphasizing the taunting echoes that crescendo in Eliot's memory. Overdone, though, are the long, pregnant glances directed at the voice of the poet, that must be taken by the three others before each exit...
...European banks to renew loans to South African borrowers. Last week the governor of South Africa's central bank, Gerhard de Kock, flew to Europe and the U.S. to try to convince bankers that South Africa remains a sound investment. But his efforts were made more difficult by the crescendo of unrest at home. The black National Union of Mineworkers was threatening to call a strike at several gold mines this week, which would deal a further blow to the country's troubled economy and create yet another area of potential strife...