Word: billowing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When it came to Debussy's La Mer, with its enormous orchestral apparatus, the Philharmonia showed the negative side of being a child prodigy. It played all the notes and played them beautifully, and listeners heard unfamiliar details, but somehow the music failed to billow and surge. It was as if a dry land breeze were blowing over Debussy's sea that day. Berlioz' Fantastic Symphony suffered similarly: the fragrant resonances, the languid rubatos and the snarling brasses were there, but the fantasy was hard to find...
Edith Sitwell dresses like a child's vision of a poet. At 67, she still wears the richly brocaded gowns that billow and sweep about her, the quartets of enormous rings, the turbans and the wimples that give her the look of a fictional heroine lately escaped from a 16th century castle. She likes to dwell on the resemblance between her thin, aristocratic features and those of Elizabeth I. Before Edith's portrait in London's Tate Gallery, an American exclaimed: "Lord, she's Gothic, Gothic enough to hang bells...
...ships and planes 50 miles away watched an enormous deep-orange fireball blaze up in the distance. Then it rose to the stratosphere, trailed by a churning grey-brown pillar of water and the pulverized remains of the little sandspit of Elugelab. As the cloud cooled, it began to billow outward...
Last week, although the garage scandal continued to billow around Baltimore courtrooms, the city erupted into wild celebration. On hand to play the first Baltimore major-league baseball game in more than half a century, the new Orioles were paraded through the streets amid 32 floats and the blare of 20 bands. But Tommy D'Alesandro was not there to strew orchids. He was in Bon Secours Hospital suffering from a nervous collapse, minus 40 of his 190 Ibs., a shadow of his once proud, pudgy self...
...disasters began as Douglas was eying Viveca on a Vienna street: without warning, a solid-seeming brick wall began to billow out like laundry in a high wind. Moments later, while Douglas and Lindfors were waltzing soulfully inside a cozy restaurant, they were abruptly doused with a thick flurry of snow. Hustling his lady through the blizzardy streets, where the cornmeal snow fell on cue, Douglas swept her into his bachelor den. As they shed their coats, snow cascaded to the floor. Next morning, when they came downstairs, the room was still snowy...