Word: climaxing
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...coloratura of her famous Doll's Song. The mood turns passionate when Hoffmann meets the sensuous Giulietta, and Schneider-Siemssen's Venice creates an atmosphere of dark mystery, with shadowy palazzi looming over dark canals whose waters hold untold secrets. The intensity deepens and comes to a climax in the third act: as in a horror movie, the normality of Antonia's surroundings only heightens the terror prescribed by Dr. Miracle. The epilogue finds Hoffmann back in the tavern where he began the evening-drunken, disheveled and disabused of idealistic notions, but inspired to write his feverish...
...attracted by extraordinary eccentrics. He might have been announcing that Animal John was also a mensch, but it is more likely he was simply expanding his range toward more traditional character parts. After a few years of shooting stardom, Belushi was inching to ward mid-life without another climax immediately in view. Now it has found him. In his early days with Lemmings, he had mocked celebrity burnout with the All-Star Dead Band - Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin. Less than a decade later, the samurai comic had provided another ghastly punch line to his own joke...
...second installment of TIME'S excerpts from Years of Upheaval, Volume 2 of Kissinger's memoirs, tells of an Administration under siege. It deals with the gathering impact of Watergate as a torrent of disclosures burst upon the nation. Then it describes Watergate's climax and America's catharsis in the premature end of the Nixon Administration. Also in this issue are an insight into a tormented President who, always fearing catastrophe, ultimately brought it on himself; profiles of the two men who were Nixon's closest aides until they were jettisoned for their involvement...
...early summer of 1974, Washington was a city awaiting the catharsis of the Watergate obsession. No one knew when the climax would come; but there was no longer any doubt of its imminence or inevitability. On July 19, the majority and minority counsels of the House Judiciary Committee joined in urging a Senate trial on one or more of four central impeachment charges. "Reasonable men acting reasonably," they maintained, "would find the President guilty...
...climax was heralded by the U.S. Supreme Court. On July 24, it ruled 8 to 0 that Executive privilege, though a valid doctrine, could not prevail over the impartial administration of justice. The President must turn over to Judge John Sirica the 64 tapes subpoenaed for the cover-up trial of six former Administration officials. For those of us who knew Nixon's way of talking, the ruling spelled the end; if the tapes did not prove fatal legally, they would politically...