Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...question of questions. Not will he or won't he; that had never been in serious doubt. Rather, the problem was how art fully he would break the news everyone expected. He put on a virtuoso performance, orchestrating a long roll of drums that built skillfully to its preordained climax. By the time Reagan appeared on the screen Sunday night, his re-election campaign was already off to a rousing start...
...stokers in the boiler room, for whom they stage an impromptu concert. All of these events may be read as portents. The deck is soon crowded with Serbian refugees, some of them revolutionaries, and their presence brings down upon the Gloria N. an Austro-Hungarian battleship and a noisy climax to what can best be described as an exercise in, perhaps even a parody of, the opera buffa...
When this show starts dancing, it does just fine. Danny Daniels' spunky chorus line works up a lovely sweat in one number (Fabulous Feet) that piles climax upon exhilarating climax; in another (Dance if It Makes You Happy), Willie dreams of tapping his cares away in the company of Bojangles, Astaire and the entire MGM back lot. Battle, a natural-born Broadway stunner, captivates the audience with an electrifying spirit that surges from his head to all ten toes. But the other family members are often deadly serious; they express themselves in Composer Henry Krieger's capacious...
...most dramatic story was of Rozier's last high school game, Thanksgiving weekend, the climax of an unusual season in Camden abbreviated by a gang war. That fall, the Wheels of Soul and the Ghetto Riders bore a certain grudge against each other. The leader of the Wheels had a relative playing for Camden and was not inclined to miss a game. "At the beginning of the third quarter, the shooting broke out," Rozier says. "It sounded like caps at first. Then there was smoke. We all hit the dirt. Both teams were face down around...
...Hockney, never embarrassed about paying homage to his aesthetic hearth gods, did the whole thing in the manner of Hogarth's engravings of that moral phantasmagoria set in 18th century England, stylizing the sets into crosshatched black-and-white etchings. Their graphic wit and punch reached a memorable climax in the final scene, where poor Tom Rakewell, insane at last, finds himself in Bedlam. The wall is covered with graffiti, each one a quotation from Hogarth, and in front of it the chorus of lunatics is housed in a stack of boxes, splayed in false perspective, a feverish metaphor...