Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When she took the stand in her own defense last week-at various times contrite, teary, arrogant and bewildered-Harris brought near a climax a two-month courtroom drama that has combined the dime-store romantics of a Barbara Cartland novel with the sizzling melodrama of a Perry Mason episode. The trial has produced steamy headlines across the country and attracted the toniest of courtroom spectators, at least five of whom are writing books on the case. "I feel Mrs. Harris' behavior on the witness stand is outrageous," said one of them. "She sits there outsmarting everyone, trying...
...great emotional climax of all these months, the reunion of the hostages and their families, fortunately occurred offscreen, in privacy. Would it have happened in privacy if the press had had its way? The uncomfortable answer, which the press should be willing to face about itself, is no. Had the hostages not been Government employees, had they not been flown out by the Government, sequestered by the Government first in Wiesbaden then at West Point, with the press held at bay by military police, no feeling of ethical restraint or human sympathy would have kept the cameras from zooming...
...Curtiss-Wright, the upstart industrial and aerospace conglomerate that tried to take over the copper company, signed a ten-year agreement preventing either one of them from trying to gain control of the other. Says Erica Steinberger, a lawyer advising Curtiss-Wright: "This is the grand finale, the climax, the end-I hope...
Boring can tense his muscles to the point where boards will break when whacked against his body. The climax of his performance, however, occurs when he breaks a board over his throat--not his neck, but his throat...
...hostage story neared its climax, network anchormen displayed uncharacteristic tension. Citing an Agence France-Presse report at 10:23 a.m. that a plane was taxiing on the runway at Tehran airport, CBS's Dan Rather snapped that the wire service had been "a pillar of inaccuracy." Minutes later, convinced that the Iranians were holding the hostages until Carter was out of office, Walter Cronkite angrily confessed on the air: "I try to remain the cool correspondent, impartial and unaffected by events, but it seems like the most uncivilized final touch to an uncivilized performance that I can imagine...