Word: heightenings
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...association of marijuana with hot jazz is no accident. The drug's power to slow the sense of time gives an improviser the illusion that he has all the time in the world in which to conceive his next phrases. And the drug also seems to heighten the hearing-so that, for instance, strange chord formations seem easier to analyze under marijuana. Jazz-playing vipers may be outnumbered by "lushes" (alcoholics)-who almost never smoke reefers. Today, among all dance musicians (including those of the "sweet" bands), the percentage of marijuana smokers probably does not exceed 20%. But among...
...that flocks of absurdly twittering birds sometimes heighten the hush and piled-up darkness before a storm, the great tenseness was heightened by a number of silly episodes...
...making it palatable with a sideshow, only takes attention away from it, and defeats its purpose. Certainly it cannot deepen the appreciation of music. Another point: If people get used to the glittery, theatrical quality of "Fantasound," the way it is projected from various wings in order to heighten effect, their ears are liable to be spoiled for natural musical sounds. But this is pure conjecture. At the present, the worst thing about Fantasia is not that people are seeing too much of it, but that so few people are able...
...however, Japanese art holds no interest for you, it is possible to enter the museum library and spend a little time with the four watercolors which are now being shown, one by Hopper and the remaining three by Sargent. The Hopper landscape serves only to heighten my belief in the excellence of the artist; the solid buildings, the clear pigment, and the clean spaciousness within which each part of the painting exists, are the work of a master painter. No element in Hopper's piece is created "in vacuo"; the houses, mountains, and the water are each related...
...Oberlaender to a decidedly harsh watercolor by George Grosz. In this painting, called "Brotherly Love," there can be found the bloodshed, lust, and intensity of passion which characterizes war. His bright colors shed a distasteful but highly effective glow, and the physical gyrations of his men serve to heighten the wild and futile nature of armed conflict. Grosz never minces words; he seldom argues; but in a sweeping and rather dictatorial way, he hammers his point home...