Word: climax
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Finally, after more than 14 months of false starts and faded hopes, the breakthrough that could end America's agonizing-and humiliating-hostage crisis came, as a dramatic climax to a pressure-packed week of high-level international bargaining. The evidence that the end was at hand could not have been more tangible: at Tehran's Mehrabad Airport, which was suddenly closed to routine air traffic, sat a Boeing 707 Algerian airliner, poised to fly the 52 Americans to freedom...
...This last special effect is a gloss of the sequence in Altered States in which William Hurt's face and arms assumed grotesque simian form (Makeup Wizard Dick Smith worked on both films): but Cronenberg goes beyond Altered States, beyond fantasy and physiognomy, for a climax that is literally mind blowing...
...black sculpture remains the core of her work. It reached its climax in 1977 with a big wooden construction, a sort of tempietto, or metaphysical shanty, called Mrs. N's Palace. "I fell in love with black; it contained all color," she comments. "It wasn't a negation of color. It was an acceptance. Black is the most aristocratic color of all, the only aristocratic color. For me this is the ultimate. You can be quiet, and it contains the whole thing...
...evening's climax: Kristin's announcement that she was pregnant with her brother-in-law's child...
...each year; the Kennecott Copper Corp.'s Bingham Canyon open-pit mine in Utah, at two miles wide and a half-mile deep, the largest excavation in the world, alone has produced copper-over 11 million tons-than any other mine in history. The Climax mine near Leadville, Colo., last year supplied 49 million lbs. worth of molybdenum, a blue-gray mineral used primarily in strengthening steel. Mines in the Coeur d'Alene district of Idaho led the Mountain States in production of lead ($49 million) and zinc ($24 million) last year. Silver and gold, those minerals that...