Word: apex
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...countess retaliates by suggesting that Hero seduce the governess. The seduction scene is the brilliant apex of the play, and as Alan Badel masterfully shades his performance from dueling banter to abashed tenderness, his acting moves beyond skill into the permanently and poignantly memorable. The next morning the governess flees the chateau, and the others seem ready to go on playacting at life as if it were still another comedy by Marivaux. All except Hero. He has seen himself for what he is and the world for what it is, and he taunts the countess' lover into challenging...
...being on the make all this time. I am on the make, but I promise you that I am very manageable" he admits. Toby's manageability and his lack of it, plus Jane's well-disguised condition of approaching motherhood, are the elements of the drama which reaches an apex of pathos in the relations of two sensitive people in love. The circumstances surrounding Toby's introduction to the fact of Jane's pregnancy, amplified by his initial consignment of her to his file-drawer for virgins, send him into a depression that results ultimately in an enigamatic ending...
Obsessed with cold reason, nimble wit and ferocious examinations, French education is a series of sieves that let pass an ever smaller number of ever brighter students. The final screening is France's finest filter: the apex academies called the grandes écoles...
Midair, the cold bronze apex sank...
Just as the musical comedies of Rodgers and Hart are at the apex of the realistic tradition in American musical comedy, Pal Joey stands as their fullest realization of their art. Besides the usual virtues of closely integrated book lyrics, and score, Pal Joey offers a singularly compelling study of an individual situation, the depths of which was not approached until Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story. Although the title of John O'Hara's book leads us to focus our attention on Joey, the significance of the work lies in the eventual illumination that the captivating but amoral...