Word: peak
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Call me a puppethead after reading the how to peak hip glossary at the end, but this new twist on the be a better and healthier person or else you'll die genre does little for the quest of rooting out the uncool in the world, one of its stated goals. In a mock parody like The Preppy Handbook, one might try to tolerate the section on. "The Dark History of Sunglasses" and the consumer help portions of the book, which offers readers where-to-buy leads, addresses and advice...
...after the election, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 26 points, to 1048. Suddenly the Dow was within easy striking distance of a record that had stood unsurpassed for nearly a decade: the peak of 1051.7 reached on Jan. 11, 1973. For about two hours the average slipped, as it has every time the record has been threatened in the past. Then, like a long-distance runner sprinting those last yards toward the tape, the market surged ahead by 20 points in the final hour. When the closing bell rang amid the boisterous cheers of the floor traders...
...last month of My Favorite Year, a film based on Caesar and his court of writers, including Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner. There is also his autobiography, Where Have I Been? (Crown; $12.95). In the book, Caesar, 60, portrays himself as a guilt-ridden obsessive who even at the peak of his success was on an alcoholic slide fueled by two fifths of Scotch a day. Says Caesar now: "Two generations don't even know me or what I've done...
...this year, 35 banks have failed, more than twice the post-World War II peak of 16 failures in 1976. William Isaac, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., told the A.B.A. gathering that the number of institutions on his agency's watch list of shaky banks had jumped to some 320, from 220 in January. While asserting that most of the banking system is still strong, both Isaac and C.T. Conover...
...York performances (the orchestra will also perform in Pasadena, Calif.) found both Karajan and the Berlin in peak form. The opening-night An Alpine Symphony put the orchestra's fabled virtuosity at the service of Strauss's last, underrated tone poem for an exhilarating trip up the mountain top. In the four Brahms symphonies, Karajan emphasized the richness of Brahms' sonorities in expansive readings that found room for visceral thrills when the opportunities arose; the high-spirited brass peroration that concludes the Second Symphony is probably still echoing somewhere in Carnegie Hall's rafters, joining...