Word: crescendos
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...Crescendo. Humphrey was getting in his own licks as well. "The fundamental issue," he declared, "is the issue of trust." Free translation: How can anyone trust Dick Nixon? In Ohio he called Nixon "one of the military-industrial-complex men who has little regard for peace." Later, he accused his adversary of being the "Number One doubletalker of all time." Both men implored their followers to "sock it to 'em," a phrase that sounded particularly ludicrous coming from middle-aged politicians of national stature...
...asylum of Charenton seem to be taking over the New York stage. This season Hair, Tom Paine and now Futz!, which opened Off-Broadway last week, have provided farcical variations on the mood and style of Marat/Sade. The moans and hisses of the patients have become a crescendo of grunts, screams and belches that resembles feeding time at the zoo. The naked backside of Marat seems to have emboldened a score of males and females to face the audience topless and bottomless, an unforeseen threat to costume designers. The writhings and stomping of Marat/Sade's insane have inspired...
...instead on the list of guests to be invited to a party at the producer's house. And that is how Peter Sellers happens to show up in brownface with a mild Oriental smile and a wild Oriental eye to turn a black-tie dinner into a hectic crescendo of slapstick, sight gag, pratfall and pandemonium...
...quieter, as stock prices edged up a bit more (2.71 points on the Dow-Jones industrials) and volume held high (14.52 million shares). On Wednesday, with the news that North Viet Nam was at least willing to talk, the trading avalanche roared to a 19.29 million-share crescendo. The ticker fell an unprecedented 47 minutes behind the action on the Big Board floor. Perspiring brokers cheered again and again as volume figures flashed across the magnified tapes projected along trading-room walls. The bellwether industrial average soared more than 13 points before profit-taking sales pulled it back...
...service to the soul. Under Forbes' vigorous direction, chorus and orchestra turned every available muscle to the task and produced violently contrasting dynamics and bruising rhythmic drive. The choir commanded a seemingly inexhaustable supply of volume which swept in wave upon wave, a high powered form of the "Bolero" crescendo. The attacks of the chorus and orchestra were explosive and for the most part precise...