Word: climaxing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...think it's very good for my credibility," Janet Reno told reporters Thursday of the latest flare-up, the revelation by former FBI deputy director Danny Coulson that two pyrotechnic devices had indeed been fired at the compound on the day of the standoff?s fiery climax. After six years, an important part of the official line on the big question ?- that the government had never used incendiary devices and therefore could not possibly be responsible for the fire ?- had been reversed, and Reno was certainly right. But there is more than credibility at stake. When Reno?s internal investigation...
Theater owners will endure a dip in popcorn sales. During this film, almost nobody leaves. Except to be sick. Some viewers have vomited during particularly tense scenes. Others get motion sickness from the jerky camera style. At the picture's climax, a Chicago woman let out a full-throttle scream. She was still shaking as the lights came up. "I'm too upset to talk," she said as a friend comforted her with...
...sing a cappella and signed her up. The upcoming CD shows off her range. Come On Over is a gospel-tinged R.-and-B. rouser that gives her a chance to shout; So Emotional is a Brandy-style midtempo ballad that she patiently builds to an emotional climax...
Thirty years ago, America?s angry youth turned three days of "peace, love and music" into an eloquent statement against the Vietnam war. But historians may have a difficult time decoding the message of the rampaging climax to the 30th-anniversary celebration that drew 225,000 people to an old Air Force base at Rome, N.Y. Hundreds of riot police and firefighters battled for more than two hours to subdue an orgy of arson, looting and associated mayhem as Woodstock ?99 wailed to a finish late Sunday...
...When this new trilogy begins to climax, what will that climax be? Will Yoda retreat to Dagobah, will Ben Kenobi pick up Darth Vader's old lightsaber, so he can someday give it to Luke? Such cloyingly nostalgiac satisfactions pale compared to Luke's arcanely scored hatred for Vader and to Han's martyr-ship in the carbonite chamber! The satisfactions of a prequel turn the the Star Wars universe into an introvert, a narcissus...