Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather was the high point of the American new wave and revived the reputation of Hollywood itself.
In surfing, wave heights are typically measured from the trough, or the flat water in front of the breaking wave, to the highest point before the wave starts to pitch forward.
When the patient is deeply unconscious, the "peak-max" pattern, in which the high points of the two wave types occur together, may prove to be a reliable sign that the patient is out.
Another was his libretto for "Alice," an adaptation of Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass," which was a high point of the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival in 1995.
"1993 was the high point of a crime wave in America," Robert Spitzer, a political scientist at the State University of New York College at Cortland who has published numerous books on gun control, told me.
The high point of this New Wave classic is an indelibly poignant shot of Karina weeping at a screening of Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc, a brilliant stroke that gives Godard's My Life to Live an additional layer of emotion, just for film lovers.
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4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days marked the high point of a Romanian "new wave" that also included The Death of Mr Lazarescu and 12 08 East of Bucharest.
This visionary tradition of planning and architecture reached its high point in the second wave of "new towns" from the 1950s to the 70s.
When a wave is about to break, you will see a bulge form at the highest point, or the crest, of the wave.
