Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...able to buy small chunks of a minute, or even 30 seconds, as they are now in the habit of doing. Commercials, moreover, are not supposed to interrupt the continuity of a show; they will come at odd times, and playwrights will no longer be required to provide a climax every 15 minutes. In the first week, that benign rule was violated frequently. Almost all the commercials were awkwardly placed, and little effort seemed to be made to preserve precious continuity. So far, only three advertisers-Kraft, Exxon and Kellogg-have committed themselves beyond the first week, and most...
...preludes to Saturday night's climax, Harvard easily defeated Columbia, 15-5, Friday, and UMass, 17-3, Saturday afternoon at Blodgett. The weekend tournament drew a total of six teams, but the aquamen did not play either Yale...
...down the eroticism of both the music and the text (based on Nikolai Leskov's 1865 story). It was essentially the same work that had fallen afoul of Pravda, but noticeably missing were the trombone slides, the most literal music depiction of sexual intercourse since the famous interrupted climax in Act II of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde and the lusty horn whoops in the prelude to Der Rosenkavalier...
...battle never reaches its climax, for as soon as the bare breasts of Lois LaRue have disappeared from the courtroom screen, we are launched into Snow's private life and his problems with a wife who walks out because he can't remember the color of the wallpaper in the living room. By this time you will have thought of several more convincing reasons to leave Snow, but director Richard Neame wisely does not dwell on these, bustling back to Capitol Hill, where Snow (rarely one to sulk) is passionately trying to convince Loomis and the rest of the gang...
...thud and giggles nervously, as the modern Anna might. Charles is hitting his emotional keys too hard: he sputters and foams out of control. There is not even a mention of their child, no real explanation for Sarah's disappearance. The moment when the lovers finally embrace-the climax awaited by every reader of the novel, anticipated by every new viewer of the film-seems ruinously flat...