Word: peaks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...performer can stay at the peak of popularity forever. In Here's Lucy's last season, ratings dropped abruptly. Although specials featuring Ball proved popular, an attempt at a sitcom comeback in 1986 was an artistic and commercial fiasco. Audiences were uncomfortable watching a senior citizen drop hammers, stub toes and otherwise attempt a pallid imitation of the pratfall past. But if the Lucy of her final years was limited to Oscar and Emmy appearances as a cherished memory, the eternal Lucy of the reruns remained imperishably funny and tender. At the news of her death last week, millions...
...performance, notably processing speed. Earlier this month NEC introduced a new series, called SX-3, billed as the world's fastest supercomputers, even though the machines will not be available until June 1990. Cray discounts NEC's claim to top speed, contending that such measurements are based on "theoretical peak performance" figures rather than a practical application. NEC insists that the SX-3's key elements have been tested...
...furor reached a peak on Saturday. As many as 150,000 students and other activists massed in Tiananmen for one of China's biggest demonstrations since the Communist revolution in 1949. As the nation's top leaders filed into the Great Hall for Hu's memorial service behind a wall of 8,000 Chinese troops, the protesters waved their fists and chanted, "Long live freedom!" and "Down with dictatorship!" Some of the leaders seemed to stop momentarily to listen to the shouts. In Xian, to the northwest, the demonstrations turned into a riot as students burned 20 houses and injured...
...used these private notes as warm-up exercises for the day's work. He gave himself pep talks: "This must be a good book. It simply must. I haven't any choice." To readers today, the fascination of this document rests in its portrait of an artist at the peak of his skills. Steinbeck's outrage at the mistreatment of Dust Bowl migrants in California, which he had witnessed firsthand, fused with his storytelling abilities to produce the most powerful book he would ever write. It won him the Pulitzer Prize and contributed mightily to his Nobel Prize...
...Harvard men's volleyball team is starting to peak at the right time...