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...Arnold did find fame in the sport. By 1975, long before moviegoers knew of him, he was the lone superstar of body building, earning the Mr. Olympia title an unprecedented seven times, Mr. Universe, five. At the climax of the documentary film Pumping Iron, which chronicles Schwarzenegger's last Mr. Olympia contest before retiring, the announcer tries to work some suspense into his revelation of the winner's name. But when he says, "The one and only . . . ," a broad grin breaks over Arnold's face. Who else could deserve that title...
...long last, a long look back in The Godfather Part III, a meandering but finally quite affecting climax to the saga. It is 1979, and Michael Corleone (Al Pacino), the sleek, ruthless don, has become a legitimate billionaire. His sister Connie (Talia Shire) has dredged herself out of a sullen stupor to become his feisty adviser. His ex-wife Kay (Diane Keaton) has remarried. His son Anthony (Franc D'Ambrosio) has eyes to become an opera singer. His daughter Mary (Sofia Coppola) is itching to grow up and fall in love...
...election was to be the stirring climax to 13 months of breathtaking change. As the first all-German ballot since 1932, when Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist Party won a plurality, Sunday's vote was portrayed as the ultimate moment of a historical closure. A little more than a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and two months after unification, the polling for a new Bundestag would be a celebration of democracy and the end to years of division...
...tumultuous meeting that reached its climax when Boston Postmaster Tom Lamft stormed out of the room, the council slammed the postal official's plan to create a Cambridge mail system separate from the Boston office...
Artists have always been much less snobbish about their sources than the idealizing critics who erect value systems on the back of their work. The process came to a climax in the '60s with Pop art. Moreover, since "low" sources cycle into "high" products that are then cycled back, as style, into "low" areas again, the supposedly rigid divisions between fine and popular art are more like a maze of mirrors, one reflecting the other ad infinitum...