As an artist, Mr. Lombardi was an unusual case: a late bloomer who developed his mature style after the age of 40, but who was experiencing the rapid ascent of a younger artist.
Are we truly seeing the ascent of a new classification of culture?
"This past year has put me in a different state of mind than I've ever been in," he says about his ascent from a young singer-songwriter to hyped proto-pop star.
One surprising development in the entertainment business during the last half-dozen years has been the ascent of a generation of young comedians whose public attitude is indignation and whose subject matter is man's inhumanity to man of which, if their work is a reflection of their state of mind, they consider themselves to be outstanding victims.
The come-from-behind ascent of the young leader marked a new era of progressive Liberal politics in Canada after voters ousted a Conservative government that had been in power for nearly a decade.
Take away the fancy wrapping and you have a moderately compelling story of a young girl's rapid ascent into an adult world of disillusion and death.
Yesterday afternoon, the ascent of Manhattan and the leveling off of Oklahoma converged at the Pyramid and produced the second major upset of a young tournament.
He made a number of difficult ascents in Yosemite as a young man and was an ardent amateur botanist and devotee of wildflowers found in the Sierras, where he went frequently.
That has led to the ascent of young stars like Victorian scholar Leah Price, who last year became the first woman to be tenured from within the English department.
Another early ascent, described by Redhead as 'his scariest climbing experience ever', was a solo ascent of a giant cooling tower in the district.
The single biggest factor driving Japan's political rise is the ascent of a muscular China.
