Word: climaxing
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...games themselves are quite intense. Conversations between players frequently come to a halt as players stop to organize their cards and play their hands. During one game, the discussion came to a climax when Grabiner announced that he had played against Zia Mahmood, the world's leading bridge player. His partner and opponents were thoroughly impressed...
Other numbers--including that paragon of male bonding, "Johnny O'Connor," and a powerful "Walk Between the Raindrops"--followed like clockwork, and the set reached a climax with a riveting rendition of William Blake's "Jerusalem," featuring a rich solo from Ignatius...
Last night's vote brought to a climax the political drama of the Thomas nomination. Many students said they spent part of the long weekend watching the tele-vised hearings that followed Anita Hill's allegations of sexual harassment...
...stretching the play to film size, a few things snap. The communal intimacy of live theater, for one; at first the piece sounds more like a rant from across the street than like the compassionate campfire chat it was. But as Search for Signs reaches its climax, artist and author stride over these nettles. If this isn't a goose-bump experience for you, you're just not sentient...
...sense of exaltation these shows leave behind untinged with regret: one knows that this golden moment of the museum retrospective, flourishing amid the corrosive vulgarity that overtook the American art world in the 1980s, will not return. Its coda, and in some ways its climax, is the show of paintings and drawings by Georges Seurat that, having spent the summer at the Grand Palais in Paris, opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York next week...