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n. 1 A tall fire, as of a building. 2 A powerful, untamed force.
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Towering Inferno may refer to:
- The Towering Inferno, 1974 disaster movie
- Towering Inferno, an English experimental music group which released the 1993 album Kaddish
- Towering Inferno (video game), for the Atari 2600
Towering Inferno is an Atari 2600 game written by Tom Sloper and Paul Newell and released by US Games in 1982. The player controls a fireman going through a burning skyscraper to save victims and put out the fires.
Towering Inferno was an English experimental music duo of Richard Wolfson and Andy Saunders, notable for their sole album Kaddish, which reflected on The Holocaust. Kaddish was released on their own TI Records in 1993, and then globally by Island Records in 1995. Wolfson and Saunders composed the music, and Hungarian performance poet Endre Szkárosi contributed the lyrics.
Towering Inferno performed Kaddish in a number of cities between 1994 and 1999, including Vienna, Berlin, Warsaw, Budapest, Moscow and Melbourne. A London performance of the work in 1995 was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. The Daily Telegraph said that Towering Inferno was "one of the most original and provocative performance-art bands of the 1990s", and described Kaddish as "a shocking and unforgettable piece".
Wolfson died in February 2005, but Saunders, with Chris Cutler, Jah Wobble, Bob Drake, Dave Kerman, Glyn Perrin, Greg Skerman and others, began working a second Towering Inferno album that had been started before Wolfson's death.
Usage examples of "towering inferno".
Bigger than The Endless Summer, bigger than The Towering Inferno: a stirring movie with ten million in special effects!
We were sitting up at the counter, on revolving stools, chewing down greasy eggs and salty bacon, talking about how many dryads can live in a banyan tree, when the front door of the drug store (the now-razed, much-lamented, lovely Henry Halpers on the corner of 56th and Madison, torn down to build, I suppose, an esthetically-enchanting parking structure or candidate for a towering inferno) opened, and in stormed a little old man in an overcoat much to heavy for the weather.
The books and talk shows tell you that married couples go from towering inferno to not so hot, and that that's normal.
The creature was a towering inferno, but except for being bathed in flames, it seemed little the worse for wear.
She moved in with some guy from Wimbledon she met at Towering Inferno.