Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chosen the music for a ballet, I completely inundate myself in it. I listen to nothing else, so that it becomes part of me-I'm drenched in it." For the effervescent Rhapsody, Ashton selected Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, reaching a climax with a pas de deux at the radiant 18th Variation. "You have to get in tune with the composer," says Ashton. "I do what the music tells...
Mount Emmons, known locally as the Red Lady because of its blushing rouge color, is partly within a public preserve managed by the Forest Service. In 1977, under U.S. mining laws dating back to the gold and silver booms of the late 19th century, AMAX (formerly American Metal Climax Inc.), the world's largest molybdenum producer, began staking claims to the deposits, as well as buying some of the privately held land outright. Things have not been the same in Crested Butte since. AMAX went to unusual lengths to calm local fears, even hiring psychologists to study the social...
...life. The stage becomes misty, an otherworldly light suffuses the theater, a giant tire rises eerily above the pussylanimous crowd, and Grizabella ascends, reborn and apotheosized, "up up up past the Russell Hotel, up up up to the Heaviside layer." This is heaven for cats and a stunning, vertiginous climax for the show...
...past two months Beirut has again been rocked by artillery duels between competing militia groups. The latest outburst of violence reached its climax last week on a warm Sunday afternoon when the Mediterranean was a deep, shadowy blue, with only a suggestion of surf, and the beaches were crowded. Suddenly, unaccountably, the Christians and Muslims both began to shell the area. The carnage: 20 dead and 270 wounded. How have the 1 million Beirutis been coping with the relentless destruction of their once beautiful city and the periodic slaughter of their people? Reports TIME Middle East Bureau Chief William Stewart...
...some signs of improvement, but these are still outweighed by the evidence of weakness. Inflation is on the wane in Great Britain, but unemployment could rise to 12% or 13% by the end of 1981. Last week some 60,000 people gathered in London's Trafalgar Square to climax a monthlong unemployment protest. Public spending is expected to jump sharply in France under newly elected Socialist President Francois Mitterrand, who took the first step in that direction last week when he raised the minimum wage by 10% (to $503 a month) and increased outlays for other social benefits...