Word: climaxing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This sea chant, repated at the story's climax, typifies Norman's highly personal approach to fiction. His story is extravagant melodrama, but his writing is strict, laconic and evocative. Birds, coves, proper names. Odd sources of enchantment, but real ones...
...weary of this yet? Has a single citizen of the global village OD'd on O.J.? Apparently not. Every day for two weeks everybody was talking, everybody was watching. Last Friday, when the pretrial hearing reached its grisly climax, was Day 26 of America Held Hostage by its own lust for sensation. On ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CNN, ESPN2 and especially COURT TV (the all-O.J. channel), the talkathon played six or more hours a day. Afternoon ratings soared 24% above their usual levels; prime-time specials were available for the law- impaired and the jurisimprudent. If you still...
...bank back to the more creative group improvization that is its greatest strength. Gradually straying farther and farther from the melodic ideas of the song, the band explored uncharted territory, but worked together, building suspense with carefully placed dissonance and atonality that left room for an energetic and exciting climax...
...darling of both Left and Right Banks. By rights this show ought to contain the "classics" of Dali's early achievement -- paintings from 1929 like The Lugubrious Game and The Great Masturbator. But these could not be borrowed, and so the early Dali story loses much of its climax...
...like shooting a ball through a forest -- you're always going to hit something. We'd win the ball, exploit the space and go out with fast forwards. It's like a fast break in basketball." Ernie Stewart's goal, which put the U.S. up 2-0, was the climax of fleet choreography involving seven intricate passes. Faced with this brisk juggernaut, Colombia turned dyspeptic, seemingly resigned to being humiliated by the U.S. "They deserved the win," wrote a Bogota daily, "as much as we deserved the loss...