Word: climaxes
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...African nature, the circle of life has fangs: mosquito bites man, fish eats mosquito, crocodile eats fish, man shoots crocodile, man dies of malaria. But for a few weeks a year, South Africa witnesses the climax of a somewhat gentler natural cycle. Most of the time, Namaqualand is a featureless swath of scrub desert running from just north of Cape Town up the coast to Namibia. From August to October, however, these plains explode in a display of wild flowers. What was once brown, dusty and flat is transformed into a sea of pinks, oranges, yellows, whites, purples and reds...
...Dare. Sales of Madonna albums have also had diminishing returns; the latest, Erotica, has sold about 2 million in the U.S., down from Like a Virgin's 7 million. Sex, her notorious $50 diary and sado-catechism, enjoyed a frenetic first-day sale in bookstores but quickly reached climax, then rolled over like a sated lover and went to sleep. It's true that her current caravan, traversing four continents and 20 cities (including New York last week, Philadelphia and Detroit this), is a smash. Biggest thing since the Who tour, you hear; biggest thing since the Rolling Stones. Alas...
...resort to painstaking, almost old-masterly construction and technical effects: in the mid-'30s he produced a series of tiny oils on copper, such as Man and Woman in Front of a Pile of Excrement, 1935, in which grotesqueness and scatology collide with an enameler's decorative sense. The climax of Miro's talent for oscillating between the general and the particular was his series of 23 modestly sized paintings known, collectively, as the Constellations, most of which he painted in Mallorca, after fleeing from occupied France, in 1940-41. MOMA has managed to assemble all of them -- a real...
...were engaging in extraordinary gimmicks and severely cutting their prices and profit margins. In the forefront of the European scramble to recover American business is British Airways. BA has waged a $6 million promotion campaign called ''Go for it, America'' to win back U.S. travelers. That effort reached a climax of sorts last week when 5,791 American winners of a BA sweepstakes were given free flights to London. Even Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher got into the act when she invited 30 of the sweepstakes winners to join her at 10 Downing Street for tea. For its part...
Fanboys and genre mavens have been well attended to in this summer movie season, which was launched with Jon Favreau's Iron Man on May 2 and is likely to reach a climax next week with the Batman sequel The Dark Knight. Today they're lining up for Hellboy II: The Golden Army. Many in this prime demographic - 14- to 24-year-old males - have already seen Guillermo del Toro's funny freak show at one of the Thursday midnight screenings that have become obligatory for action films...