Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's 4-1 defeat of Providence, the East's regular-season champion, was more than just the climax to one of its best-ever ECAC campaigns. It also capped a five-year ascent from two of the most horrendous seasons in Crimson history in 1978-79 and '79-80, to a mediocre finish the next year, to a runner-up playoff finish last year, to Harvard's championship this year...
...climax of The Night of the Shooting Stars occurs when the group from San Martino, helping some partisans harvest a wheat field, is attacked by a band of Black shirts. What ensues is a grotesquely comic scene of carnage, as a lot of inexperienced people shoot at each other with pamcky clumsiness. A man runs into a childhood friend with a yelp of joy, only to riddle him with bullets: a girl embraces a long lost cousin in black shirt, but her husband pushes her aside with a rifle; both sides tending to their wounded, inadvertently borrow each other...
...printing. It encouraged Stella to make large images by using silk-screen or flat-bed lithography from metal plates-means that more "purist" printmakers, wedded to the nuances of stone lithography, tended to reject as commercially tainted. Stella began to push printmaking toward the scale of painting. The climax of this process was reached in an extraordinary series of prints he did with Tyler Graphics from 1980 onward...
Instead of working up to the stupendous climax which the hectic comic pace demands, Lovesick merely runs out of things to show, and--after only 90 minutes--concludes on a typically sappy boy-gets--girl note. Successful contemporary comedy demands a more innovative approach; captivated too many times already by a vast assortment of comedic episodes, audiences rightly expect a four-dollar ticket price to buy them cleverness, not redundancy...
...climax of the nationally televised debate, which lasted nearly five hours, the bishops, priests and lay delegates to the General Synod rejected, 338 to 100, a proposal that the church endorse unilateral disarmament. The alternative pro-deterrence motion that carried the day, 387 to 49, was offered by the Bishop of Birmingham, Hugh Montefiore...