Word: peake
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first act's jokes and jibes build to a peak full of sexual and cultural references and effectively contrast the modern, sterile WASP society with the lively traditional Italian, by pitting the soft-spoken and slender Aggy against the raucous and obese Francine...
...find the younger people--35 to 45--who right now are extremely good...but who have not reached their peak," says Brody. "You look around the field and you see that the really interesting work is being done by people like this," he adds...
...Harvard policy of hiring the best in the world often means getting big-name stars, which Brody says is wrong-headed: "The problem with hiring a best shot is that their peak sometimes turns out to be a plateau...
George Frideric Handel. For almost 30 years, while the operatic vogue was at its peak, Handel was the unquestioned master of the form. Despite his historic eminence, however, he was neglected by the Metropolitan Opera until last week, when it finally staged Rinaldo...
...Almsgiving from the population reached a peak during the religious holidays; but it was continual all through the year, and sometimes took the form of money handed to the convicts as they shuffled through the streets of Omsk in a work convoy. The first time Dostoevsky received alms in this way was 'soon after my arrival in prison.' A ten-year-old girl-the daughter of a young soldier, who had seen Dostoevsky in the army hospital when she came to visit her dying father-passed him walking under escort and ran back to give him a coin...