Word: climaxing
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Debates in Tehran and Cleveland bring the campaign to a climax...
...LEVELS, the production loses steam after intermission. To be sure, this is in part Wedekind's fault; Spring's Awakening starts to flail away in the end, as if the author is in a hurry to get to his striking climax. Still, this only calls for a greater focus on the director's part. Instead, Prum flails even more than Wedekind. Scenes take on the flavor of sketches from Saturday Night Live; the light, controlled parody that distinguished the first half lumbers now in its obviousness. Worse, it gets turned back on the play and the production itself, always...
...regatta is advertised as casual, fun and low-key, but this year may prove otherwise for several reasons. Three thousand competitors and 720 boats will pass under the bridges, but the climax of the regatta will be late in the afternoon, when the West German Olympic Men's Eight challenges our own National Team crew in a match that never took place in Moscow this summer. The United States Olympic Committee has supplied transportation and living expenses for the Olympians, and Charlie Altecruze '80, who was spending the year studying in Germany, flew in for the weekend...
...film's comic tone, however, is as deadpan as that of a New Yorker profile. The interested-disinterested camera follows its subject for a few days, records snippets of conversation, refuses to strain for socko punch lines or an apocalyptic climax. As an ironic True Confessions, the film may satisfy the benign curiosity millions of people seem to have about Woody Allen. The star of cover stories in virtually every major magazine has now written and directed his own. It is the story of his life and his films, a defense of a public artist's need...
...broad, brilliant patterns. Not until the 1950s, with Hen ri Matisse's chasubles for the Chapel of the Rosary at Vence, would a ceremonial garment approach the purity and bold ness of design of the 19th century chiefs cloak named for Kekaulike-nui. Such objects would form a climax to any ethnographical show. One can only regret that in this case they do not cap a better...