Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issue has never been settled in the public mind. I.R.A. killings in Northern Ireland and Britain, along with rising criminality, have helped lead 77% of Britons, according to the latest Gallup poll, to favor the return of the death penalty for terrorist murderers. Last week the nation reached the climax of an emotional argument over the subject that divided the government, mobilized the clergy, aroused the police and dominated the press. After 6½ hours of debate, the House of Commons voted decisively (368 to 223) against a motion to restore capital punishment...
...Vera (Annie Ross) and his "psychic nutritionist," the alluring Lorelei Ambrosia (Pamela Stephenson)-and one nebbishy computer genius gone astray. His name is Gus Gorman, and since he is played by Richard Pryor, two things are certain: Gus will be on Superman's side in time for the climax, and the film will turn a healthy profit before the summer is over. Screenwriters David Newman and Leslie Newman, who have worked on all three Superman movies, are canny enough to bring Pryor on early; he runs through his engaging repertoire of whinnies and grimaces, demonstrating an unexpected mastery...
...NUIT DE VARENNES is a multi-color, multi-costume pageant of one of the most famous days in French history--the moment in 1791 when Louis XVI. Marie Antoinette and the whole French monarchy collapsed once and for all. The occasion is no less than the climax of the Revolution, a pivotal moment in the story of Europe. The film, though, misses weighty historical drama by a good deal. Relegating the central political figures of the Revolution to the periphery of his film, Scola focuses on a lively troupe of contemporary notables, who talk and romp their way across...
...climax of Clark's career, though not of his talents as a writer, came with Civilisation, the 13-part series that he wrote and narrated for the BBC in 1969. When Civilisation first appeared in England, the reviews were respectful, on the whole, but tepid. Among art historians, there was a good deal of scorn for its generalizations. Many television people thought it an oldfashioned, static affair, hobbled by Clark's unbudgeable penchant for writing scripts that were really slide lectures, with the narrator too much in view-"I am standing in front of the Cathedral...
...pages, Wiley and his love, whose name is Orra, stroke away in this manner. The story line that emerges concerns Wiley's ambition to bring Orra to sexual climax, an occurrence that eventually comes about along the following lines...