Word: codas
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...lusher moments evoked the fine string writing of Vaughan Williams. Yu has a knack for the Spanish dance idiom--one hopes that he will conduct Ravel's "Alborada del Gracioso" in the near future. The members of the orchestra were more than up to the task of the furious coda, never letting its fast tempo mar their phrasing...
...strings that put this one over the top. The brass and winds, too, played energetically without over-looking nuances. In one particularly affecting moment, Dohnanyi appeared to close his eyes and put his hand over his heart. The orchestra performed the penultimate passage so brightly that the coda seemed superfluous...
...final volume particularly, with its long autumn-of-my-years coda, King seems less interested in frightening readers than in setting them to dabbing their eyes and musing ruefully about life and death and stuff like that. It is a conclusion that may feel anticlimactic after five months in which the novel's narrator has been hinting at a more hair-raising denouement. Still, like the best popular art, The Green Mile has the courage of its cornier convictions. You might even say the palpable sense of King's sheer, unwavering belief in his tale is what makes the novel...
...spare, dying fall of that coda lies an ocean of tears--and a sensibility of genius...
...catch him. The classic Keaton climax is of Buster walking blithely down a Los Angeles street while a herd of women, cops--cows, even--chases after him. And when he is caught, when Boy and Girl end up married, it's not necessarily a happy ending. In the coda to College we see the couple as newlyweds, then as young parents, then as bickering old folks, then as names on their tombstones. Sometimes...