Word: peak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Letter to the Board. The real reason for the blowup, implied Annenberg, was that the News's circulation has slipped nearly 15% from its postwar peak, and he was being blamed for it. Said he: "When circulation is going down, the circulation director is-well-not so great...
...setting new records.Last week production reached an estimated 177,843 cars, the greatest week in automobile history. In March an estimated 786.000 cars were turned out, toppling the previous high mark of 720,100 set in June 1950. First-quarter output of 2,121,000 units surpassed the previous peak of 1,898,783 reached in July-September...
...plot hops from peak to peak of interest with a goatish nimbleness. Tyrone Power, a Boer bushfighter, visits Ireland to buy horseflesh and meets Susan Hayward, who follows him to Africa. When they meet again in the big attack-in which not a hair of her pretty red head is ruffled-Ty says exactly the right thing: "You . . . here in Africa fighting Zulus ... I can hardly believe...
...best things about an Addams cartoon is its abruptness. The Honeys suffers mainly because it is not abrupt enough; the macabre spirit wears off too early in the evening. The play's humor reaches its peak in the second act, when the freshly killed Bennett, his head covered with a lampshade, sways back and forth in the living room while the female Honeys entertain a guest. From this point on, the author's morbid inspiration slowly flickers out, and the humor of the last act consists largely of geographical jokes ("Sinning is in its infancy in Boston") and the standard...
...wren of a man, long-haired and sharp-beaked, Mann was as pithy and angular in speech and gesture as in his paintings. He never cottoned to the art of his contemporaries, went his own way slowly. At about 40 he hit his peak, and never came down from it. The last half of Marin's life was mounting triumph. He divided it between New Jersey winters and Maine coast summers (except for two excursions to New Mexico), devoted it to painting pictures that were not so much windows on nature as calculated explosions of sea, sun and open...