Word: climax
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Going into today's match against Yale and tomorrow's climax versus Princeton. Harvard's squad looks solid, with the exception of Hulbert, who remains a question mark Recently replacing Staley at number one, the freshman has yet to prove herself in the hot seat...
...Jonathan Kaplan's Over the Edge follows the narrative line of earlier "teen gang" pictures-from idleness to violence, for no other reason than for something to do-but has a special kick. Here are boys and girls 12, 13, 14, precociously aping their elders. It makes the climax, in which they demolish the local high school, as chilling as any thing in The Exorcist...
...Golden Pond. Henry Fonda rages at the dying light and, with his hard brilliance, illuminates a twilight romance, while bringing his own career to a golden climax...
...latest U.S. Steel-Mobil skirmishing was a perhaps fitting climax for a year of Brobdingnagian company mergers, and it also brought out increasing protests about corporate takeovers. Mobil is now viewed by many in the financial community as a reckless predator that is willing to spend extravagant sums and stop at almost nothing to acquire another oil company. Meanwhile, critics charge that U.S. Steel should be spending its money to update its antiquated and uncompetitive steel plants rather than trying to buy a company in an industry far removed from its field...
...phrases; what's supposed to register is Reed's passion--that he could talk all night about politics!--and Bryant's dazed awe. And later, in Russia, when Reed finds himself on a platform exhorting the Communists to strike and promising the support of the American workers, the climax of the scene is not the workers' cheering, but the proud, loving gaze of the hitherto frigid Louise. "She'll sleep with him now," we think, and sure enough, Beatty cuts to coitus in silhouette, Keaton...