Word: peake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That madness comes to a head when, after the tension and estrangement has reached its peak, after Claire has pursued a whole set of fantasies, the poles reverse and the couple come together in a sudden, two-day orgy. They tear the paper off the walls of their flat, scrawl and paint surrealistic shapes underneath, and finally slump back into exhaustion and defeat. Then they separate for good...
...this spring there is a lush lawn of Kentucky-31 fescue instead of the old Merion bluegrass. The magnolias and the cherry trees have sprinkled their delicate petals on the ground like tinted snow. The redbuds, crab trees, azaleas, tulips and hyacinths are at their peak. For the moment anyway, for a President who resides in the center of it all, the world is sweet and beautiful and promising. And it already has the Nixon thumbprint. Right straight out the window, down the knoll and across the drive, as the President's eye goes, there is the Sequoia gigantca...
...like to give up," said one Toledo resident after his home absorbed its second soaking in six months. "It may be a losing battle, but I can't walk away from my investment here." Such hardiness will help in the future. The lakes will not peak until June, and they are expected to remain high for at least another two years...
Fairy Tale recounted, briefly but tortuously, the adventures of some mountaineers who lived in a region of the Ozarks called Poop's Peak. "From generation to generation," went an all too typical passage, "the Poopers had zealously clung to the truths which made them free. Namely, snoozing and boozing ... The Poopers were congenital shiners of moon, which is to say, hootch hustlers, which is to say, distillers of illegal whisky." When one of them, young Jake Kertuffel, was sent into town to trade in the family jalopy on a new car, he was swindled into accepting a pile...
Kael is sometimes prone to theatrics when she files off the handle, but I think that she has to be. When the media hype pushes the reviewer into the role of fashion setter-everything he likes becomes a new peak - he has to come out extra loud to fight against its pressures...