Word: climaxing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most popular candidates of the evening, however, are not on any ballot. At the climax of Hillary Clinton and Barbara Bush's duet about campaign woes, "Can't Love Helping That Man Of Mine," they sang "Let's ditch both our misters and I'll run with you." From the tumultuous applause they received, it was clear the audience thought it was a great idea. Lori E. Smith...
Imagine yourself in the throes of wild, passionate sex in a one-room Manhattan apartment. With bold nudity and sound effects to rival Meg Ryan's famous restaurant scene, the opening scene to Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune can only be described as the play's climax...
...lifeless, tells the tale of a young Brit who takes up the White Man's Burden and travels to a distant land where "the natives have pierced teeth." When he returns home, he receives a cryptic message from the natives, which is read aloud at the song's climax. The message is a series of contradictions, following this pattern: "you equals me/ the land equals the sea/ an enemy equals an adorer/ but priest equals aura...
...finally gripped New Hampshire. Candidates accost voters on frigid streets, knots of campaign workers wave placards in shopping malls, and a blizzard of campaign commercials blankets prime-time airwaves. But the familiar trappings disguise even more volatility than usual as the nation's first primary moves to its climax. Though Bill Clinton is the media-anointed front runner, easily two- thirds of the likely Democratic voters are in flux, and the fortunes of his four main rivals have been fluctuating erratically...
Sweet and sentimental and, yes, a little slow, this adaptation of a beloved children's book is gorgeous and Freudianly evocative to look at, melodic and poignant to hear, innocent and hugely satisfying in its emotional climax. The only worthwhile American musical...