Word: peak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that the decline is not a sign that women are choosing the altar over the office. Rather, it may be that women as a statistical group have now delayed marriage as long as possible. "At some point," says the Census Bureau's Steve Rawlings, "all these trends reach a peak period of stabilization...
More important, Newhart is running with the easy, confident stride of a TV series at the peak of its form. Success has come without any of the usual sitcom crutches: not a single regular character is a wisecracking child, irreverent senior citizen or cute extraterrestrial. "Let's just say we're not a high-impact comedy like Laverne and Shirley," says Newhart, 57. "We give the audience credit for having some intelligence." Newhart's leisurely, low- voltage style sets the tone; instead of rapid-fire gag lines, he opts for shrewdly timed pauses, stammers and deadpan understatement. He gets...
...says he is also glad to be back down to a "realistic weight," having dropped 60 pounds since his NFL peak...
...whose specialty is Manet. The first issue she had to settle was the scope of the museum. What did 19th century mean? There was no way the Louvre was going to surrender its masterpieces of early 19th century classicism and romanticism. So Orsay's program must begin after the peak of the romantic movement. Cachin, Laclotte and the new museum's staff wanted to start in 1863 -- the emblematic year that saw the first Salon des Refuses, Manet's epochal Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe and the formal rupture of the avant-garde from the academy. Giscard demurred. He wanted...
...rest of the building, natural light is Aulenti's main subject. Her use of it reaches its peak of tact and skill in the galleries for impressionism and postimpressionism at the top of the museum, fitted into the dead space between facade and vault. This parade of rooms, with its 30 or so Van Goghs, its nearly 40 Cezannes, its Monets and Manets and Renoirs, its superb array of Degas bronzes, is bound to be the popular core of the museum, and Aulenti was right to put it up high, closest to the light. "Light is impressionism," she says...