Word: heightenings
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...security measures only serve to heighten a growing sense of frustration with city life at Harvard. Students were always aware of Harvard's proximity to Cambridge's dirty streets and smelly air, but somehow crime and violence appeared only in newspapers...
...security measures only serve to heighten a growing sense of frustration with city life at Harvard. Students were always aware of Harvard's proximity to Cambridge's dirty streets and smelly air, but somehow crime and violence appeared only in newspapers...
...Golani Brigade, began maneuvers in the occupied Golan Heights of Syria. A military spokesman said that the maneuvers had been planned for some time. But in Washington, which had been counseling Israel to show restraint, some Administration officials feared that Israel's militant presence near the border might heighten tensions and increase the danger of a bigger Middle East explosion...
...trumpet music performed by versatile Trumpeter Schwarz. The Sonata by Davies, who also composed the opera Taverner, is sequential but melodic. Composer Dlugozewski, who studied with Varese, employs a variety of mutes and experimental techniques without sacrificing emotional content. Composer Hellerman, a Columbia University faculty member, utilizes tape to heighten musical tension and not merely as a sound effect. In his performance, Schwarz gives us swooping glissandi, a simultaneous playing and singing technique, and he stretches the trumpet range to an incredible 4/2 octaves-a feat that is in itself worth the price of the record...
...suggest and allude instead of saying it outright would create an unhealthy climate for the spectator," he explains. For greater realism, he insisted on using an actual apartment rather than a set for the scenes between Paul and Jeanne, although he then chose very unrealistic colors and lighting to heighten the atmosphere. He required that the decor be in reds, oranges and flesh tones-"all uterine," in the words of Tango Set Designer Maria Paola Maino. The light that slanted into the rooms was always orange shafts from a low winter sun, contrasting with the cool violet and gray...