Word: climaxing
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...these messages from a lost world. In interviews she plays the sympathetic den mother to these kids barely out of their teens, and they respond, most of them, with patience and decorum. In assembling these chilling images, Spheeris has followed the music's dictum: start at the climax and run like hell. And in providing a punk primer, she has documented a troubling tendency in movies as well as in music-the triumph of aggression over involvement, movement over purpose, action over passion. Alas, nothing much else is going...
...real cool climax to the Kool Jazz Festival at New York's Lincoln Center when none other than the reclusive Miles Davis horned in. Davis, 55, one of the all time great trumpeters, emerged from a five-year hibernation to blow a blend of rock and jazz, captivating an S.R.O. crowd that had paid $25 for orchestra seats. Some things never change. Davis was typically late, so the organizers told his fans to get a drink while they waited. No sooner were the customers out of the building than Davis bopped onstage and started to play, triggering a stampede...
...Conoco-Du Pont agreement was the climax of a complex drama of high finance. It began with unwelcome assaults on Conoco by two Canadian companies. The first came in May, when Dome Petroleum bought 20% of Conoco's stock. The U.S. company fended off that threat by agreeing to trade its majority interest in the Hudson's Bay Oil and Gas Co. in return for the Conoco stock that Dome had acquired. At the same time, however, a more ominous Canadian challenger appeared. In late May, Seagram privately approached Conoco with an offer...
...chosen the music for a ballet, I completely inundate myself in it. I listen to nothing else, so that it becomes part of me-I'm drenched in it." For the effervescent Rhapsody, Ashton selected Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, reaching a climax with a pas de deux at the radiant 18th Variation. "You have to get in tune with the composer," says Ashton. "I do what the music tells...
...inevitable that Nanda should be expelled from this rarefied world. The occasion is the discovery of a novel she is writing. It is intended as a heroic celebration of God, with sundry evildoers redeemed at the climax by divine power. Alas, the manuscript, nowhere near completion, is found by a nun during a routine snoop through desks. Nanda's tearful pleas are in vain. Says Reverend Mother: "I have watched something growing in you-a hard little core of self-will and self-love." The gates clang shut...