Word: peak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year we feel compelled to sort it all out. Why? To impose order on the culture jumble, perhaps to restore a reassuringly human scale: when Warren Beatty represents a peak and Geraldo Rivera the pits, the concepts of triumph and disaster have been safely domesticated. And, of course, to play the parlor game. (The Simpsons better than thirtysomething? Come...
...that it's any surprise. When Irises sold for $53.9 million in 1987, any fool could see the Gogh-Gogh years were drawing to a close. No, it was not the peak; three years later, Van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet brought $82.5 million. But this is often the way it works, whether in the art market or any other -- a long run-up and then a final speculative blow...
...SHAWNEE PEAK...
Exit 8 to Route 302 West, follow 302 West to Brighton. Shawnee Peak is 6 miles West of Brighton...
...tendency is to use Keillor's essays and stories as a sacred text of a new Midwestern religion. But Garrison Keillor writes about a world that everyone knows. WLT: A Radio Romance traces, via a fictional narrative, the birth of radio, its peak of popularity and its decline...