October 17, 2008

Pinnacle








pinnacle

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–noun 
1. a lofty peak.  

2. the highest or culminating point
as 
of success, power, fame, etc.: the pinnacle of one's [career].  

3. any pointed, towering part or formation, as of rock
4. Architecture. a relatively small, upright structure, commonly terminating in a gable (gayble, 三角牆), a pyramid, or a cone, rising above the roof or coping (遮簷,牆頂) of a building, or capping (無邊便帽,蓋罩套) a tower, buttress (拱壁), or other projecting architectural member.  

–verb (used with object) 
5. to place on or as on a pinnacle. 
6. to form a pinnacle on; crown.  

—Synonyms 
2. apex, acme (最高點), summit, zenith. 3. needle.

—Antonyms 
2. base.


004 
The second clip gives you a little taste of the wrestling action. Randy "The Ram" Robinson takes on The Ayatollah (Ernest "The Cat" Miller) in a 20th anniversary rematch of their "epic" match at WrestleSalm IV in 1988. Imagine if The Iron Sheik and Macho Man were [reduced] to do[ing] a rematch of the wrestling match 

that was the pinnacle of their [career]


but at a small independent fan fest show in front of only a couple hundred people. As you can imagine, both wrestlers aren’t exactly on the top of their game. The footage was taken from an international television review of The Wrestler, so there is Spanish commentary over the entire clip, which of course isn’t in the actual film.


fret【建】字浮雕,回紋飾[C]
niche 
But filmmakers with an easily defined [niche] and some marketing [flair] can still assemble a distribution plan.
to find one's niche in the [business world]. 

buttress
revet [ri-vet] 用石、水泥等覆蓋(堤岸、壁等的表面),鞏固
riveting [riv-it] rivets 鉚釘

facade [fuh-sahd]

mezzanine
parochial gentrification
tormentor 
marquee

shack
She discovers that Carl is shacked [up] with a beautiful 
barrack
All the callers-in want to do is barrack him [about] his support, started decades earlier, for Hindley's parole.
bunker
a [coal] bunker.  
to bunker an army's [defenses].  

cusp foil

cubicle
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