Word: heightenings
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...labels for different-priced seats. Balconies will be called terraces, and loge seats will replace the traditional boxes. The loge seats, however, "will be more generously spaced" than those in the terraces and orchestra. Concertgoers in even the remotest seats will sit under "clouds" of acoustical panels that will heighten tonal quality and deflect the lights to suit the mood of the music (an alarming prospect for people who do not particularly want to hear Bach in the dusk...
...year-old New Yorker named William Kronick, Bowl was filmed at 16 frames a second and is shown at 24, with an arresting result: the picture moves across the screen, as the old silent comedies did, with a tic-quick impetuous energy and innocence that delightfully heighten...
Fear aroused by melodrama is "paranoid." It is the feeling that "all things living and dead are combining to persecute us." "Victorian melodramatic novelists made use of bad weather, but to heighten the audience's fear the playwright must substitute outrageous coincidence...
...dispute the assertion that universal suffrage would heighten interest in Council--assuming the candidates would not be the beneficiaries of free local T.V. time. It is the members of the Council who would bear the bulk of its work and accomplish the task of rendering it a more useful body. Interest expended on a college-wide popularity contest could better be channeled into the members' elections conducted in the Houses and freshman class...
...simply too intricately detailed to mass-produce for spring sale in the U.S. Ricci, who introduced a "firecracker" silhouette, raised eyebrows with clutch-dresses without buttons down the shirt front, requiring two hands to keep them closed and prevent outright exposure above the waist-particularly since Ricci, to heighten the flat-chested flapper look, sent his mannequins out braless. Other houses, to achieve the same de-emphasis, went even farther, bound up their mannequins. "The American woman won't wear it that way," snorted Richard Blauner of New York's Suzy Perette, "because the American woman has grown...