After the award, Hughes enjoyed the high of his own Channel 4 show and six years as a team captain on Never Mind The Buzzcocks.
After the high of his win against Ronnie O'Sullivan, Barry Hawkins came crashing down to earth on Tuesday at the Crucible.
If there was a problem with this sports fest, it was that Mr. Lagerfeld, amused by the novelty of everything -- including a Chanel scuba jacket and logo surfboard, lugged out by a model at the end -- couldn't provide the same high of his July couture collection.
The New Saints boss Craig Harrison hopes to experience the biggest high of his football career when his team take on former semi-finalists Legia Warsaw in the Champions League.
Director Richard Kelly was riding the high of his 2001 sleeper hit Donnie Darko, with studios hoping lightning might strike twice.
In '97, he was still riding the high of his Oscar win for Leaving Las Vegas just two years earlier, and he had just starred in Michael Bay's The Rock and the above-mentioned convicts-on-a-plane summer hit Con Air (released the same month as Face/Off).
