Armed attempts against the British Raj from Bengal reached a climax when Subhas Chandra Bose led the Indian National Army from Southeast Asia against the British.
The first of several whiplash eruptions from Blade brought a climax, followed by soft massaging of Shorter's tone on soprano sax, a jazz swinger over Patitucci's fast walk.
Well, in terms of genre historical revisionism it's a lot more entertaining than the head-banging tedium of Jonah Hex, which somehow managed to make civil war zombies deadly dull, despite much scenery chewing from John Malkovich and a climax featuring steampunk warships aiming weapons of mass destruction at the White House.
Tunisia's impeccable penalty sequence which dumped Nigeria from the semi was a climax of confident and collective cool.
Meanwhile, drought intensified yearly from 1980, building to a climax in 1984, when the small rains were scanty and the main rains failed altogether.
In January 1905, following the massacre of a worker demonstration bearing a petition drafted by the Union of Liberation ("Bloody Sunday"), the country exploded in rebellion, which, ebbing and flowing in response to news from the front, reached a climax in October 1905.
If whites in Kenya and Zimbabwe, not to mention South Africa, vociferously maintain their African-ness, what then to make of the Arab presence in Sudan, whose slow penetration and widespread intermarriage, Mr. Mamdani writes, "commenced in the early decades of Islam" and "reached a climax" from the 8th to the 15th century, "when the Arab tribes overran much of the country"?
The leftward direction of scroll reading is reflected in the composition of paintings and pictures which may build to a climax from right to left; or a main event presented on the right may be followed by its after-effects to the left.
There are snare drums and microtonal bells and vibraphones and cymbals, organized into tight ensemble patterns in Harrison's "Song of Quetzalcoatl," set loose to mingle more freely in Mr. Byron's "Trackings 1," and building to and falling from a single climax in Tenney's "Having Never Written a Note for Percussion," scored for a single instrument — in this case, a gong.
Both men play a vital role in Ms. Barrio's Soleá, which now brings the program to a climax (apart from a briefly celebratory ensemble by way of finale, unannounced but traditional in flamenco).
