The climax of the State of Origin rugby league match was thrown into chaos when 33-year-old Wati Holmwood streaked across the pitch "like a very slow bolt of buttery lightning", as our report put it.
The Harry Hill Movie, which begins its eight-week shoot on 12 May, promises a tale of sick hamsters, a fraught road trip, and a King Kong-esque climax atop Blackpool Tower.
This week's Senate activity, centred on the Sarbanes bill, may well mark the climax, rather than the start, of the Democrats' reformist zeal.Most important, there are few signs yet that cleaning up corporate America is an issue that animates the voters.
The debate reached a climax of sorts in 2000, when Arthur Levitt, the outgoing chairman of the SEC, tried to introduce a ban on accountants' selling non-audit services to their audit clients.The firms fought back successfully, using intensive political lobbying based on a variety of arguments ranging from the disingenuous to the specious.
London will host a "week of football" at the climax of a tournament that will be played across 13 countries from the Republic of Ireland in the west to Azerbaijan in the east.
The facts of the actual strike are jettisoned in favour of a ticking-clock climax whereby Scargill/Pacino must race to parliament on a motorbike and make a tear-jerking speech before the miners blow up Sellafield.
Even during the tense climax, he keeps things light, combining smiley walkout with stinging kicker: "It's getting a little Diane Sawyer in here," referencing the famously intrusive interviewer.
These murders, in effect reprisals against local Maoist guerrillas, who have also killed many, reached a bloody climax with the deaths of 58 men, women and children with no connection to extremism in the village of Lakshman Bathe in 1998.
BillyMills again: It's interesting that the Spanish chapter, which is not at all about flying, is the climax of the book; his experience of war seems to have moved his position a bit away from the solitary and towards the communal, and that is evidenced by the sheer number of other people who inhabit, indeed dominate, that chapter.
Antony and Constantine toured the streets and clubs, recruiting downtown characters to perform in their theatrical extravaganzas, which would always climax in a song by Antony.
Back in Barry, the series arc rumbles along toward a climax we still can't predict.
