Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...give them something to think about, like Cuba?" he suggests, to cheers. "I think it's time we quit telling the enemy what we won't do, and letting them go to bed at night wondering what we might do." More cheers. Reagan is building to a climax. "The president told us SALT II had to be ratified or no one would like us. He told us we had to give away our canal or no one would like us. It's time to tell the president we don't care if other countries like us, that instead we want...
...rock-teasing paean to American sexuality of barely sublimated desire, bulging jeans and watery eyes, sex sans porn, pulse without flesh, a lean, lacquered look at the demons of the California Dream. Instead, Schrader concocted a laughable montage of silly sequences, an absurd plot and bad lines that reaches climax in a bizarre series of fade-outs that symbolize pauses between pelvic thrusts. Gere, as Julian Kaye, makes it clear that he does only straight, high-class women. He looks more embarrassed than worried when he gets framed for a handcuffs-cum-sex murder that he didn't commit...
...climax was almost preordained, and yet it came with surprising speed. After four days of debate had passed and 74 delegates had followed each other to the speaker's podium of the United Nations General Assembly, it was now time to vote. The Assembly's Tanzanian president, Salim Ahmed Salim, invited the 152 delegations to record their votes on two electronic boards behind the rostrum. The boards suddenly lit up as the delegates pushed the buttons at their desks-green for yes, red for no, amber for abstention. After just three minutes, Salim coolly revealed the outcome...
...climax does not disappoint. The activities surge to a wild crescendo with everything from the fjords of Norway to the world's fastest airplane integrated into the resolution. Forsyth has indeed fashioned a thriller, where--don't be deceived--the surprises keep coming until the very last page. If only he could portray a human being with the same verve and insight with which he calls forth a "short-barreled pump-action shotgun...
...agree that the movie Star Trek [Dec. 17] is flawed; however, your reviewer's criticism that "there isn't even a battle scene at the climax" reveals a saddening ignorance of Star Trek's underlying message of optimism. In a future when we have achieved superior technology, it is hoped, we will put that knowledge to a more humane and productive use than the efficient slaughter of one another...