Word: climaxing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...manhunt was launched for her creator, an investigation that came to a climax with the arrest of David L. Smith, 30, in Eatontown, N.J. Smith had been tracked down in about as many hours as it took Melissa to make it around the world. The fact that a suspected virus writer got caught was unusual enough. Even stranger were the bedfellows who beat a path to his door: a Boston software entrepreneur, a Swedish student, a deputy state attorney general, the nation's largest Internet service provider, a whole passel of antivirus experts and the FBI. What these sleuths found...
...fact that the fiery climax is a forgone conclusion is just one of the reasons Carrie 2 is largely devoid of suspense or dramatic tension. There is also its tendency to substitute black and white images and spooky lighting for any real frights. Moreover, we don't even really care when the high school jerks finally get what they deserve. The evil jocks and cheerleaders are certainly horrid--for example, the guys think videotaping the girls' derrieres is a productive extracurricular activity--but the antagonists are far too cartoonish to truly be resented...
Until that moment, I had never been particularly germophobic, mostly because that would require cleaning my apartment. But once I found out about these easy-to-use antibacterial products (soap, Purell, body lotion, sponge, detergent, telephone swabs), I became obsessed. It reached its climax last month when I heard about the Killer Germ. The germ, a new strain of Staphylococcus aureus bacteria immune to antibiotics, had killed a middle-aged woman in Hong Kong. Normally, I wouldn't be afraid of Staphylococcus aureus bacteria because I don't know what it is. But Killer Germ I understood...
That was the climax of one of Moore's bestgames of the year-two goals and two assists...
With their deadlines rapidly approaching, it’s crunch time for senior writing theses. But even as thesis season reaches its climax with History and Literature theses due last Monday and most departments' due dates before spring break, seniors are adding color to their lives--with highlighters and color-coded page tabs...