Word: climaxing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...overwhelm the feeling of elation that the summit was taking place. "This event is focusing world attention back on the environment as the most important issue of our time," said Russell Mittermeier, president of the Washington-based Conservation International. Activists see the summit not as the climax of their crusade but only the beginning. (See related story on page...
...state Capitol in Austin last week was freckles-fritters-and-fried-chicken America: elderly retirees, earnest young men and women in ROSS FOR BOSS T shirts, and a sprinkling of former Vietnam POWS in black shirts as a reminder of their suffering. As the patriotic pageantry built to a climax, a compact man with jug ears, weather-beaten face and glasses, the sort of fellow who looks like he might belong behind the counter in a small-town hardware store, bounded up to the impromptu stage, and the crowd roared, "Run, Ross...
Their dream is free land, but before they can attain it -- in the Oklahoma land rush that is the movie's smashing climax -- they must endure a long, penniless passage in the Boston slums, where they live as brother and sister in a rented whorehouse room. They're the only residents unable to assuage their sexual itch, and, madly sublimating, Joseph becomes a bareknuckle boxer in a sporting club. It is here, at its center, that Far and Away takes its biggest chances, for this section is dark and claustrophobic and concludes melodramatically with Shannon near death and Joseph carrying...
...blame rests not on Ms. S.'s shoddy reporting, carelessness, bad writing, and total ineptitude in reviewing a complex play, but in your actually printing such a banal piece of garbage. Every detail is incorrect and misinformed, right down to the insipid photograph that you ran, miscaptioned "The Climax" when in fact it is a cast photograph bearing little relation to the performance and staged entirely by your staff photographer...
Ranked No. 3 in the Nielsens, but No. 1 in the hearts of the upscale "I rarely watch network TV" crowd, Murphy Brown is about to hit the climax of its four-year run. A year ago, Murphy -- 42, unmarried star reporter for a TV magazine show called FYI -- got pregnant and (after a brief flurry of interest in the father's identity) decided to have her baby alone. Now, with her due date approaching, the series is gearing up for a season-ending double whammy: & next week's celebrity shower and then, on the season finale, the baby...