Word: denouement
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...before joining President Bush at the briefing room podium, Tony Snow of Fox News got a fresh trim at a Georgetown salon - signaling the coming denouement of a very public courtship by the White House. Going on The O'Reilly Factor to talk about a job offer from the President might have meant the death penalty from this White House, but Snow has already shown he has an unusual degree of latitude...
...Their goaltender obviously made some huge saves for them.” “Both of them are doing what their teams need them to do,” she added. The result proved another example, after the previous weekend’s last-second denouement and Friday’s nail-biter, of how evenly matched the two squads are and promised an exciting conclusion to the series in yesterday’s finale. —Staff writer Jonathan Lehman can be reached at jlehman@fas.harvard.edu...
This section dynamic is analogous to the ongoing saga of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and University President Lawrence H. Summers, and what appears to be its approaching denouement...
...when all the little details would rise into one enormous fugue of laughtrack-driven ecstasy as George collapsed to the floor in his undies or Kramer made a final exit. Not only were all of these developments funny on their own, but when they came together for a magnificent denouement, you appreciated them tenfold. After a very solid episode to begin the fifth season, I felt confident that Larry David’s brilliance had not yet eroded. But the second episode, entitled “The Bowtie,” was very weak--over-populated with incidents in which...
...never-quite-finished The Large Glass (also known as The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even), two painted and otherwise embellished panes of glass in a wooden frame. The curators even consider the view of Paris through the room's windows to be part of the show. This denouement is frankly puzzling. The Dadaists would have loved...