Word: climaxing
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...four hours of classes begin. There are lectures in obligations to parents and children, social roles of men and women and their places in the tightly knit Japanese society. There is also vigorous physical activity, team efforts to move tree trunks, for example, or cement benches. Finally comes the climax, the dip in the icy Isuzu...
...stores and to pull out of Britain. Next, Woolworth Chairman Edward Gibbons, 63, died suddenly in October. Then Bruce Allbright, 54, whom Gibbons had hired just one year earlier to run Woolco and the U.S. Woolworth stores, returned to Dayton Hudson Corp. Finally, the upheaval at Woolworth reached a climax last week when its highly regarded president, Richard Anderson, 47, also walked out the door. He was immediately replaced by Harold Sells, 54, who had been senior vice president...
...movie's climax--when Emily Kimberly alias Dorothy Michaels alias Michael Dorsey reveals his identity--is one of the most perfectly constructed film sequences. All three characters finally merge and Hoffman triumphs as we witness his dexterity in wielding the various personalities. The energy he put into this performance and the resulting masterpiece drown out all accusations of high salaries for temperamental superstars. Because in this case this superstar's performance is so priceless that perhaps only an Oscar can be the final reward...
...front door of a store he kept outside the capital city of Windhoek, and questions of national representation becme moot as crowds of his tribesmen and others marched and lamented and staged a massive ritual funeral. Rioting broke out at the funeral and seven Ovambo tribesmen were killed, the climax of weeks of Herero-Ovambo strife. SWAPO leaders denied any involvement, just as they had three years before when Ovambo chief Philemon Elifas was shot to death in a similar incident...
...easily spotted as an unhappy Harvard fan at an exposed press desk in a student section, the climax came at the buzzer, when crumpled newspapers flew over my head onto the ice and I was nailed by a well-aimed, half-eaten banana...