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...incest (1971's Le Souffle au Coeur), France's collaboration with its Nazi occupiers (Lacombe, Lucien, 1974) and child prostitution (1978's Pretty Baby, his first American film, which also launched Brooke Shields). Yet Malle's high-voltage subject matter contrasted with an often reflective style that reached its apex in his second American film Atlantic City (1981), which starred Burt Lancaster as an aging hood playing out the role of dashing outlaw that had eluded him in his youth. His oddest film was 1981's My Dinner with Andre, a 110-minute conversation in which two friends wrestle with...
...sweat and toil of an at athlete always add to the glory of the victory, as when Gwen Torrence came back from life-threatening foot injuries to win gold medals in the 1992 Summer Olympics. Yet this idea is not the apex of athletics, as it was for the Greeks...
...without a President. White House strategists even have a term to describe the way they distance themselves from their fellow Democrats: triangulation. When the President wants to position himself on a given subject, he draws roughly equal-size lines from the Democrats and Republicans and puts himself at the apex. Congressional Democrats have their own word for the process: strangulation...
...center sits at the apex of a V-Configuration of humanities buildings, with the museums of Quincy Street on one side and a line of humanities buildings from Boylston Hall to Widener and Lamont Libraries on the other...
...Japanese Army, cut Napoleonic figures, riding white horses in splendid military uniforms, but they were also the high priests of State Shinto, donning traditional ceremonial garb and communing with the Sun Goddess in ancient shrines. If the forms were sometimes very old, the idea of the Emperor as the apex of a modern state religion...