Word: thunderers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dusk was fading as the radar operators and bombardiers mumbled over slide rules and fed a mass of specifications on target, course and weather into their mysterious banks of electronic panels. Then the B-29s coughed into life, wheeled ponderously down the feeder taxiways to thunder off into the rain at three-minute intervals...
Listeners used to the blood & thunder accompaniments of Verdi, for instance, found Vivaldi's music often "lively as gunfire," but hardly theatrical. Holofernes got his head lopped off in a few bars of refined fiddling-where Verdi would have unleashed all the brass and tympani in the pit. And Judith was always genteel, a decapitator in old lace. Sung in Latin, the vocal lines were always elegant, sometimes floridly difficult...
...picture lops off the last fourth of the novel (which piled melodrama on melodrama, with Aissa shooting Willems), and some of Conrad's tropical thunder reaches the screen only as a muted rumble. But by making much of his movie on location in Borneo and Ceylon, Director Reed has captured the rank, overwhelming atmosphere with which the story is saturated: the landscape of brown golds and brilliant emeralds, the oppressiveness of the jungle, the steaming sunshine, the murmuring river, the endless chattering and chanting of the natives...
come into your home again ..." A microphone, trembling from a slender rod above the speaker's purple zucchetto (skull cap), picked up the resonant tones of his voice-soft, yet suggesting the possibility of thunder-and spirited them across the land to more than 2,000,000 TV viewers. The voice belonged to His Excellency the Most Reverend Fulton J. Sheen, auxiliary Bishop of New York, perhaps the most famous preacher in the U.S., certainly America's best-known Roman Catholic priest, and the newest star of U.S. television. Telegenic Cleric...
With Elaine, back in Italy, "the drums . . . rolled into one prolonged gigantic thunder." Perhaps partly to get away from all this racket, Pietro goes on the fifth Crusade, where he is captured by the Saracens and meets Zenobia. "To such a one, he thought . . . every thousand years the ribald gods give such a form in order to drive...