Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...short, no exhibition like this can ever be mounted again. Bozo's main work with the Musée Picasso is still before him. For Rubin, the MOMA show is the climax of a career; to have brought off, within three years, two exhibitions at such a level (the other being his Cézanne show in 1977) is in some measure to have altered the history of curatorship itself. Rubin, the Iron Chancellor of MOMA, has set new standards of detail and historical cogency within the museum, and the Picasso exhibit and its admirable catalogue reflect them at every point...
...sense of the cubist moment can never come again. It is almost as distant, in its dulcet and inexhaustible optimism, as the faith that built Beauvais. Cubism was the climax of an urban culture that had been assembling itself in Paris since the mid-19th century, a culture renewed by rapid transitions and shifting modes. It was art's first response to the torrent of signs unleashed by a new technology. Not for nothing did Picasso inscribe "Our future is in the air" on several of his cubist still lifes; tellingly, Picasso's nickname for Braque was "Wilbur," after Wilbur...
...Islander captain Eddie Westfall presented her with a bouquet and his teammates skated by to shake her hand--the Flyers scored just 19 seconds after the opening face-off and coasted to a 4-1 victory. Bobby Clarke & Co. went on to defeat Buffalo in something of an anti-climax...
...emotional climax of the day came in the 800-meter and 1500 meter events, as senior Thad McNulty closed out his college track career with two big wins. McNulty edged out Eli senior Marty Osborne--also running in his last undergraduate meet--by .5 seconds in the 800 and a wider margin...
Most of the action in Guyana occurs in the final half-hour of each installment. In Part 1, there is a climax that makes Dallas look like Washington Square: having already had an affair with a married female follower (Diana Scarwid), Jones starts to make love to the woman's husband (Brad Dourif) as she looks on. One's mind reels merely in contemplation of the efforts it no doubt took to get the scene past the network's censors. In Part 2, things get going when Congressman Leo Ryan (Beatty) arrives to investigate the Peoples Temple...