Word: nadir
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...these movies were small, intense, black and white, ideally suited to the psychological realism of the Stanislavskian Method, as it came to be known; ideally suited, as well, to Brando's questing spirit. But in the '50s, as he reached the height of his powers, Hollywood sank to the nadir of its strength. Competing with TV, it embraced color, wide screen, spectacle--and was looking for bold, uncomplicated heroes to fill its big, empty spaces. Brando looked (and felt) ludicrous in this context...
...more complex. Though colorful tales of Simpson's trollops and narcotics abuse have been documented in the past, Fleming cleverly uses Simpson's life to explore Hollywood's entire dark side, which has spawned such troubled figures as Heidi Fleiss, O.J. Simpson and River Phoenix. The book reaches its nadir in a chapter where readers learn more than they want to about the producer's unsuccessful timed-release testosterone implants in his buttocks...
...descend into the tunnels he helped to build, hopping onto the Red Line or just-muttering to themselves while wandering aimlessly, looking for a place to urinate. With the recent erection of the "Magnetic Poetry Wall," some may believe that the spirit of Harvard Square has reached its nadir, particularly if one is reading the latest attempt at actual verse or simply another adolescent-inspired phrase along the lines of "she loves purple sausage milk shoot." But personal rejuvenation lies just across Mass. Ave, where the eyes of "Muggsie" peer out into the hustle and bustle of the Square...
When Oppenheim writes that "the acceptance of racial and gender difference may have been possible...only because such inclusions did not involve revision of our basic moral principles," it is the nadir of an article whose unspoken agenda is to insist that homosexuality is fundamentally immoral...
...dominant figures of the 1930s came to power almost simultaneously: Adolf Hitler on Jan. 30, 1933; Franklin D. Roosevelt 33 days later. It was no coincidence. Each embodied drive and vision--one diabolic, the other democratic--at the very moment their respective countries, and the world, had reached a nadir of economic and social despair...