Word: crescendos
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...music from the soundtrack of The Ten Commandments swells to a crescendo, then fades as a clapping chant, "Za-rur-Za-rur," fills the loudspeakers. "Brothers," a soft voice intones, "Jesus Christ told me I should be President of Brazil. But Jesus is not my campaign manager. I am his. If I win, Jesus will govern. I will deliver Brazil into the hands of God. The people are waking up and saying, 'I want Jesus to rule Brazil...
...campaign to come. During a two-day House of Commons debate on Dr. Richard Beeching's drastic reorganization program for the nation's ailing, anachronistic railway system (TIME, April 5), Labor, which decried the government's plans as "political" window dressing, set up a crescendo of jeers that thoroughly rattled the Tory advocate, Transport Minister Ernest Marpies. But the noise hardly concealed the fact that most Laborites wholeheartedly favor modernizing the state-owned railways, which cost the nation $500 million in 1962 alone. They claim that Beeching's plan, which includes closing down one third...
...smash windowpanes, the splintering of wood as beaks peck through the door. One gull manages to wriggle inside a window barricade; before Taylor can strangle it, his arm and hand have been bloodied. The sound track -there is not a note of music throughout the picture-reaches a deafening crescendo of screeching, whistling, chattering, flapping cacophony...
...weekend at Lake Biwa, a sort of Nipponese Grossinger's, where she has arranged for Harvey to shoot some pictures. With the rain pelting on the roof of the bungalow, she serves dinner on the floor, lets down her hair, and the background music comes to a crescendo. (The theme, mystifyingly, seems to be something that Composer Elmer Bernstein remembered from Composer Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story...
Radio Peking grew so angry with the Russians over their withdrawal from Cuba that it used a new technique for its philippics : each sentence was followed by a burst of martial music. With or without brass accompaniment, the discord between Moscow and Peking reached a crescendo last week, and no one any longer pretended harmony. In Budapest, addressing a congress of the Hungarian Communist Party, Moscow Delegate Otto Kuusinen. 81, oldest member of Khrushchev's Presidium, denounced a Red Chinese visitor two seats away: "Bigmouthed extreme leftist critics are bravely brandishing their verbal weapons before world imperialism." But when...