Word: peaks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Most of my seasons have either started late orcut short, and it's been very frustrating,"Dinneen said. "I haven't been training that long,and it'll be a couple weeks or even a month beforeI peak, but I think things are falling into placenow. I haven't started to do speed work yetbecause of ham string problems, so I think I cango quite a bit faster...
...Most of my seasons have either started late or cut short, and it's been very frustrating," Dinneen said. "I haven't been training that long, and it'll be a couple weeks or even a month before I peak, but I think things are falling into place now. I haven't started to do speed work yet because of hamstring problems, so I think I can go quite a bit faster...
...modern standards, the hostile summit of Mount Llullaillaco, in the Argentine Andes, is no place for kids. The ancient Inca saw things differently though, and so it was that one day, some 500 years ago, three children ascended the frigid and treacherous upper slopes of the 22,000-ft. peak. The three had spent time at the 17,000-ft. level, taking part in rituals that can only be guessed at. Now, accompanied by a retinue of adults, they moved steadily upward. They would not return. Once at the summit, the children--two girls and a boy, between eight...
...Shaham has survived the hazards of prodigyhood to become the outstanding American violinist of his generation. His forthright, incisive playing can be heard at its youthful peak in this remarkable new recording (which also includes Bartok's First and Second Rhapsodies). Shaham's soaring interpretation, at once fiery and nobly lyrical, is a near perfect realization of a modern masterpiece; Pierre Boulez and the Chicago Symphony provide lucid support...
...there is an antithesis to an overnight success, then Hadid is it. She arrived on the architecture scene in 1983 when, at 33 (which is like seven in architecture years), she won a prestigious international competition to design a sports club on the Peak, the mountain in Hong Kong. The financing for that ambitious building fell through, but her drawings and the design--a dramatic cantilever jutting out of the mountain like a futuristic rock ledge--were wildly praised by the architectural fraternity...