Word: climaxing
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...bitter war seemed to be nearing its climax, both sides had gained grudging respect for their adversary's fighting powers. Said British Defense Secretary John Nott: "I think the Argentine pilots have shown great bravery." Still, Prime Minister Thatcher declared: "We in Britain know the reality of war. We know its hazards and its dangers. Despite these grievous losses, neither our resolve nor our confidence is weakened...
...first and final glance, Poltergeist is simply a riveting demonstration of the movies' power to scare the sophistication out of any viewer. It creates honest thrills within the confines of a P.G. rating and reaches for standard shock effects and the forced suspension of disbelief only at the climax, when we realize that the characters are behaving with such obtuseness precisely because they are trapped inside a horror movie. On the plot level, Poltergeist is a warning against trying to build a mobile modern life over the . unquiet graves of the past. The picture can also be seen...
...about the Russian Revolution. But these works were for official consumption; spiritually, Shostakovich went underground to express his most personal thoughts-to the more intimate, rarefied world of chamber music. Indeed, in the Eighth Quartet (1960), he wrote an autobiography in sound, quoting from his own music: at the climax of the fourth movement, the cello wistfully recalls a melody from Lady Macbeth...
...plot of Blithe Spirit is these people chain-drinking and alternating from backhanded compliment to forehanded insult. One can only imagine the shock Coward must have experienced when he opened a playwriting book and learned that plays require forward plot movement and a climax. The plot he has devised to meet these needs has little to recommend it, neatly alternating as it does from either total predictibility to utter unbelievable with very little in between...
...alive with third-degree burns over much of his body. Even so, fire images would be in consummate bad taste if 1) Pryor thought there were such a thing as bad taste, and 2) he had not used a recitation of the event and its aftermath as the climax of Sunset Strip. In the days after Pryor was found in shock a few blocks from his Northridge, Calif., home, his attorney declared that he had accidentally ignited a glass of rum with a butane lighter. Few believed it. Stories from the rumor mill are darker and more credible...