Word: highpoint
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Hatch and Jennifer Gibbs (Honey) make reasonable attempts in their roles, but they encounter a few problems. Hatch reaches a highpoint in the scene where George tells the Miss Muff story. The intensity that he displays when he smashes a bottle is powerful. But Hatch's diction is often unnatural because he overenunciates every word. Gibbs performs well when she experiences an emotional breakdown caused by her fear of becoming pregnant. Otherwise Gibbs often seems unconcious...
THIS CONCENTRATION promises to be similar to other laughable Women's Studies majors that have sprung up across the country. Its core will be a sophomore tutorial, "Women's Studies 10," and its highpoint will be "Classics of Feminist Theory I and II," a wrenching of the word "classic" if ever there...
However diverting all the 1950s teenage nostalgia might be, Christopher Lloyd, as the crazy scientist, is in disputably the movie's comedic highpoint. Lloyd plays this gentle madman as a potentially brilliant inventor whose complicated schemes skirl the edges of insanity. His long, white hair flying and his glazed eyes wide open with wild intensity, Lloyd enters into the spirit of his role with a full and considered seriousness that makes Doc truly and artistically humorous...
While that era in some ways marked a highpoint of BSA activities, it also signaled a decline in that organization's preeminence within the Black community as the BSA began to focus on Black issues on campus, earlier community projects--such as tutoring and political support for public schools in the predominantly Black Roxbury area--were neglected by the group. This shift in emphasis drew fire from some Black students, particularly from the Seymour Society, formed...
...talent to the amount, and the teaching of Barnaby has paid huge dividends. And when it was time to keep them at the Home Cup. Stimpson, a consummate team player, deviled most of her satisfaction from the effect of the triumph on others. "The Howe Cup was the absolute highpoint," she recalls "it felt so good because in a way we won it for Jack, it was our way of thanking him for everything...