Word: thunderous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Editorial Thunder. But the stalling has backfired. In newspapers across the U.S., angry and disgusted editorials have blasted the delay as, among other things, "frivolous," "base," "petty," "foolish," "spiteful," "senseless," "inexcusable" and "unconscionable." Even the liberal Washington Post, no friend of conservative Lewis Strauss, protested the Senate's dillydallying. "It ill becomes the Senate," said the Post, "to use its power of confirmation as an instrument of harassment...
...cities. One side of the insert bore color pictures of Niagara Falls and London's Big Ben clock tower, the other a solid block of brown ink. As the subscribers listened spellbound, the insert, placed face up in a table-top device called a Synchroreader, reproduced the awesome thunder of Niagara Falls, the clangorous toll...
...Chorus of Clouds, superbly led by Elizabeth MacNeil, collide harshly to produce thunder, gesture formally in their odes, and dance gracefully to pipe and drums in their lovely pastel costumes (by Sheila Finn). And Nick Boone has achieved a wide variety of effects with only nine lights...
...grand piano, which one player walloped with a lamb's-wool-covered drumstick) to achieve frequent climaxes of crashing, ear-numbing virtuosity. But the composition's most effective moments were also the most subdued: a passage in which drums rolled with the distant tremble of thunder while the pod rattle and wood blocks chattered with the strident noises of night...
...this is really quite dull, and unfortunately most of the blood and-thunder afficionados will be disappointed by the obvious fakery which transpires in the action scenes, of which there are all too few in the first place. You conclude, then, that No Sun is not worth 120 minutes of your valuable time? Well, you're wrong again. What saves No Sun in Venice is that it's cool, and for this reason alone you should see it (actually, I must admit that Mlle. Arnoul is quite fascinating, and this probably constitutes another reason...