Word: climax
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...medical pieties or keeping poor Flap shaped up ("One of the nicest qualities about you is that you always recognized your weaknesses; don't lose that quality when you need it most") or bullying the nurse into administering a delayed sedative, MacLaine achieves a kind of cracked greatness, climax to a brave, bravura performance. Winger has an uncanny instinct for inhabiting a role, for implying that she knows even more about the character than words permit...
...ghoulish climax, less than 48 hours after the assassination, Oswald was murdered right in the Dallas police station, by nightclub manager and police hanger-on Jack Ruby...
...technique, which is a skillful blend of narrative action, reminiscences about Dorothy and Paul from those who knew them, interviews with Dorothy after she became famous, and blood-drenched flashbacks to the afternoon of the murder, is that you know the ending, and must wait uncomfortably for the violent climax. The acting is uniformly excellent, the camera work unobtrusively effective, and the cinematography by frequent Bergman collaborator Sven Nykvist superb. Sleazy glitter is shown in a drab light that seems to have been filtered through all of the cocktail lounges in Los Angeles. But it is difficult to appreciate technical...
...everyone's mind this afternoon. A share of the Ivy title (with the winner of the Penn-Dartmouth game) or an outright crown (if the Green and Quakers tie) is on the line for Harvard. But more important, the Crimson hopes the 100th Game will be the climax of a successful 10-game season, and not a one-game failure of a season that overshadows the other nine-tenths...
Giella will give it one last try this Saturday when Harvard visits the Yale Bowl. "I've been thinking about this game since my freshman year," Giella says, "and now here it is--the climax of my entire atletic career...