Word: climaxing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after 15 difficult and profoundly engaging years living together in London and Connecticut. Yet according to Bloom, nothing prepared her for the mental collapse she says Roth suffered in the early 1990s and for the subsequent psychological torture he inflicted on her--a shattering breakdown that is the climax of Bloom's new memoir, Leaving a Doll's House (Little, Brown; 272 pages...
...very long. Towards the end, as the techniques that were once startling--head-banging, repetition, shouting--became familiar, I found myself longing for something genuinely risky--a violent gesture, or a vulnerable one, anything that would seem like a payoff to all the build-up. Instead, the show's climax is a laughable quotation from Mahler's Fifth Symphony, as if the famous fanfare could create drama in an essentially static piece...
...fitting that Strug's moment of Olympic glory was the storybook climax to one of the most brilliantly managed team efforts in U.S. Olympics history. She played through pain, convinced that she had to for the team, risking a worse injury and jeopardizing her own chances for more medals. Maybe she shouldn't have done it; later it became apparent that she needn't have done it. But she did, and America got another electrifying moment to put into its collective sports memory bank...
Then came the climax of the torch lighting. The final Olympic torchbearer had been a closely guarded secret. Two former Olympians, American boxer Evander Holyfield and Greek track star Voula Patoulidou, ran around the track together and handed off to U.S. swimmer Janet Evans. She ran up the ramp and passed the torch to a large man emerging from the shadows. As Cassius Clay, he had won the light-heavyweight gold medal in Rome, and as Muhammad Ali, he became the most famous athlete in the world. But a lifetime of blows has left him with Parkinson's syndrome...
...probably explains why Bobby Bantz, LoddStone's second in command, is a fulsome repository of foul behavior and slippery business practices. Among them is the willfully complicated gross-and-net game that fattens those on top and leaves naive scriptwriters out of pocket. Puzo takes his vendetta to comic climax when a novelist turned LoddStone hack has to kill himself to get his money. That he sets aside his multiple suicide notes for a rewrite is the sort of black-humor icing that tops off much of this highly anecdotal read...