Word: climax
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Decades have a way of crashing to a close during the blink of an hour. The '60s ended at Altamont, when a knife-and-death climax to a Rolling Stones concert showed that the decade of love, peace and music had trouble, even with the music. The '70s limped along with an inner-directed malaise until Jan. 20, 1981, when the U.S. hostages lifted off from Tehran just as Ronald Reagan was taking office. The '80s, as befits their high-flying adrenaline, may have dissipated a few years early, sputtering to an end during the stock market's terrifying final...
...another story was playing itself out last week as well, one that at first tugged only lightly at the fringes of the nation's attention, then seized it with surprising force as it inched toward a climax. For more than two days late in the week, Americans were gripped by the plight of little Jessica McClure, 18 months young, who tumbled down a well while playing in her aunt's backyard. Trapped underground for 58 desperate hours, the child seemed doomed. Yet a down-but-determined West Texas town rallied round and literally clawed its way to her rescue...
...minute group meeting $35 to $50. Scores of devotees showed up in Arlington, Va., for the annual conference of the Association for the Study of Dreams. There they heard the latest scientific findings on dreams, traded visions at breakfast and acted them out after dinner. The meeting's climax: a dream ball, with participants dressed as dream characters and symbols...
...jeering reached a climax as the candidate stepped to the podium to the theme from Rocky. Robertson briefly tried to fight the crowd by shouting, "People should have the right to be heard when they speak!" Shaken by his reception, he jettisoned his 18-page text and instead delivered 15 minutes of rushed rhetoric on family values...
...rain-slicked street at night. The quiet operations of secret intelligence are this novel's method as well as its theme. And though The Color of Blood may, in the end, seem lean to the point of thinness, one can almost see, as the pressure mounts toward a palpitating climax, the closing credits rise above a seamless and thoroughly gripping motion picture...