Word: peakings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...awards were the fulfillment of Hamlisch's plan to reach the peak of his profession before his 30th birthday. In the past five years, he has scored more than a dozen films (including Bananas, Take the Money and Run, Fat City, The World's Greatest Athlete), working up to an annual income of $80,000. The total is now soaring like the strings in a climactic moment from one of Hamlisch's scores, as royalties pour in from his own album of Sting music and Barbra Streisand's recording of The Way We Were...
...would toss his bat to the ground or slam his batting helmet onto the dugout bench. His morale was not helped by a bitter feud that quickly developed with Finley. This dispute, which began over salary and spread in 1970 to Jackson's quality of play, reached a peak late that summer. While crossing the plate after hitting a grand-slam home run, he saluted Finley with an obscene gesture. Finley demanded, and got, a written apology; but the incident plunged Jackson into a foul mood-to say nothing of a slump that ended the team's chances...
Down the home stretch, it would be hard to say who contributed more than LaCivita. His personal output reached a peak in a nonleague game against UMass two weeks ago when he connected on five of six trips to the plate, including two home runs, three runs scored and seven runs batted in--perhaps the finest single-day output of any Crimson player this year. But LaCivita has been a driving force behind the Crimson bandwagon in every other game as well...
Last week's bombs, made of 200-250 lbs. of gelignite, had been packed into three cars parked at curbs. They had been timed to explode at a peak rush hour, and there was no doubt that they were clearly meant to kill as many as possible. The force of the blasts hurled bodies through glass storefronts and left others grotesquely fused or mutilated. Limbs lay scattered about. One dead woman was found with parts of a car engine embedded in her back. Another victim, his leg twisted and bleeding, lay pleading, "I'm Tom O'Reilly...
...projects a nearly invisible rise of two-tenths of 1 % in real output for the year. The unemployment rate has dropped slightly in the past two months, to 5%, but several of the economists view that as a statistical aberration and expect the rate to rise again to a peak...