Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kenton and his progressives had thoughtfully scheduled Paris as the climax of a triumphant month's tour of the Continent. Earlier, from Scandinavia to Switzerland, they had given 27 concerts in 27 days. In Copenhagen some 10,000 fans stomped their approval so hard that Kenton & Co. began to fear for the floor. Amsterdam fans called them mieters (current Dutch slang for terrific). In Miinster admirers rioted for autographs...
...mistress. Next day the New York Times's Critic Brooks Atkinson wrote: "Miss Hepburn is the one fresh element in the performance. She is an actress; and, as Gigi, she develops a full-length character from artless gaucheries in the first act to a stirring emotional climax in the last scene. [She] is spontaneous, lucid and captivating." The rest of the New York critics heartily agreed. Paramount Pictures and William Wyler, who had decided to keep their $2,200,000 production waiting for Audrey on the hunch that her play would not run a month, were obliged to twiddle...
...have to be made, three wives out of four reach complete fulfillment at least once. Between the ages of 21 and 40 they attain it from 84% to 90% of the time. In sum. says Kinsey, about three-quarters of all sexual relations within marriage end in a satisfactory climax for the wife. However, he reports no case of a woman who attained climax 100% of the time...
...little (750 students) Eastern Washington College of Education at Cheney two years ago, no one on the faculty wanted to complain. After all, Freeman had been a teacher of geology and geography since 1924, and his colleagues felt he deserved a quick stint in the presidency as a climax to his career. But once in office, Freeman seemed to change-and so did the attitude of his campus...
...prove anything, and neither can the police. , In a desperate attempt to keep the woman from poisoning his brother's other child, Gotten poisons her first-with a tablet of strychnine he found in her own aspirin bottle. Unfortunately, Actor Gotten looks so earnest and bashful at the climax that the audience is apt to wonder whether, after all, he is involved in a matter of life & death or whether he is simply expressing a mortal longing to know the shortest way to the taffrail...