Word: apex
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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That will not be easy. In his columns and his book, Guide to Dining Out in New York, Claiborne combines formal gastronomic training, superb taste and a delightfully caustic, even bitchy style. His dismay with Le Pavilion after the death of Henri Soule reached its apex when he spotted a red pencil in the maitre d's breast pocket. He lamented: "In the days of its glory Le Pavilion was the ultimate French restaurant . . . The waiters now seem to collide with less grace than they did in former days...
...Ichigaya Hill in western Tokyo, the headquarters of Japan's Eastern Ground Self-Defense Forces, sunshine bathed the midday. Mishima had arrived on the threshold of his life's climactic act. It was the sort of act, Japanese Literary Critic Kenkichi Yamamoto wrote later, that "reached its apex in one pyrotechnic explosion beyond time and space-one flash in the darkness and nothing else...
...nerve-racking duality of The Game reached its apex for Segal two years ago when he came to Cambridge for the meeting of unbeaten Harvard and Yale teams. It was his last football game...
Whether they will or not, the two concerts were the absolute apex of the hippie social season. If the kids who turned up were not dressed to the teeth, they were at least dressed to the noses. In addition to the usual headbands, see-through tops, togas, bell-bottoms and union jackets, many of the girls had their noses painted in art nouveau pinks and blues. Bare feet pattered up and down the red-carpeted aisles while the sweet, light, pervasive smell of pot drifted through the darkness toward the ceiling...
...plays were produced by the Negro Ensemble Company, founded two years ago by Actor-Playwright Douglas Turner Ward, Actor Robert Hooks and Producer Gerald Krone. The company is the apex of a genuine black breakthrough that occurred off-Broadway during the 1960s. The small theaters, mostly below 14th Street in Manhattan, were the training or proving grounds not only for Moses Gunn but for James Earl Jones (The Great White Hope) and Diana Sands (The Owl and the Pussycat"), as well as for Gloria Foster, Clarence Williams III, Cicely Tyson, Barbara Ann Teer, Rosalind Cash, Lou Gossett, Vinie Burrows, Yaphet...