Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wordless gesture and one choked cry. Although the play appears to celebrate the tender bonds of family and community, the beauty of human connection is all but unseen: real self-awareness comes in monologue or in rueful exchanges among the shades of characters already dead. In the climax, a young woman who has died in childbirth revisits earth on the day of her twelfth birthday, only to find that her mother cannot "see" her. That is, not only is the mother unable to envision the ghost of her daughter's future self but, for all her maternal devotion...
...picaresque epic seems longer than its running time, and this one eventually begins wandering, like Jim, in search of an elusive climax of reconciliation. But this is caviling in the face of two splendid young artists: Bale, 13, who carries the character of Jim through four years of hell and puberty, and Spielberg, who again proves that he is our top picturemaker. He has energized each frame with allusive legerdemain and an intelligent density of images and emotions. He has met the demands of the epic form with a mature spirit and wizardly technique. Spielberg has dreamed of flying before...
...What I Hear" is initially promising, a pure pop voice made to sing simple ballads. This production is more like "We Are the World: The Sequel," with choir-like backup vocals and a very similar melody. There's the same slow beginning and spare verses building to an overpowering climax of Whitney, backup singers, and treacly violins all at once...
...then, did the rout give way to a rally? Traditionally, that happens after every so-called selling climax (even in 1929), because most investors who were thinking of selling have been cleaned out in one grand sweep and buyers start looking for newly cheap shares. The rally in the middle of last week was given particularly powerful support by some 200 major corporations that started buying up their own stock at bargain prices, in part to keep it out of the hands of would-be raiders. The crash put at least a temporary damper on mergers and acquisitions anyway. Several...
...week television audiences around the world will be able to see footage of the awesome wreck, as well as objects from the Titanic that have not been seen since the "unsinkable" liner foundered on its maiden voyage in 1912, at a cost of 1,500 lives. The program's climax: the opening of the safe, a stunt that will inevitably be compared with TV Correspondent Geraldo Rivera's much ridiculed 1986 on-camera opening of Al Capone's empty "vault" in Chicago (a show also produced by Westgate). After filing unsuccessfully to block the broadcast, Florida Investor Michael Harris...