The form reached the pinnacle of its popularity between 1850 and 1870, when it enjoyed sizeable audiences in both the United States and Britain.
When Nelson Mandela declared that the greatest moment in his life was meeting his heroines the Spice Girls, the band knew they had reached the pinnacle of their popularity.
In 1960, the game was at the pinnacle of its popularity and prestige, and Updike could get away with putting the fans at the center of a September afternoon.
The offenses spanned a period from 1955 to 2009, the report said, with the peak from 1966 to 1976, when Mr. Savile was 40 to 50 years old and at the pinnacle of his popularity, drawing millions to his prime time shows.
The reign of Pedro II thus came to an unusual end he was overthrown while highly regarded by the people and at the pinnacle of his popularity, and some of his accomplishments were soon brought to naught as Brazil slipped into a long period of weak governments, dictatorships, and constitutional and economic crises.
Now, almost five years after a stroke felled him from the pinnacle of power and popularity and condemned him to vegetative existence in a sterile hospital room, he is back at the ranch.
He even enjoys a kind of popularity.
In the 1960's, perhaps the peak of her popularity among Western intellectuals, she represented the loftiest pinnacle of commitment to the struggle on behalf of the oppressed.
"The pinnacle of success".
