Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...resolution of the play comes as something of a surprise. After developing the conflict for 45 minutes, everything magically comes together in the last five minutes of the play. This abrupt resolution robs the play of any real climax: the rising action gives way to immediate resolution. And if the lights don't go down to let you know the play is over, you might end up sitting there, waiting to be told that everything is finished...
...realizing his deliriously original idea, Allen occasionally stumbles. Some of his transitions are abrupt, some of his jokes predictable. And after nearly three decades, it may be time to revise or retire his screen character. He's too old to keep playing a perpetually muddled romantic victim. But he wears his ambition winningly and, as a filmmaker, achieves a transcendence of his own, making something fresh and beguiling out of that middle-class, middlebrow angst he has so often explored...
CHICAGO: Anybody up for the Yankees vs the Mets? Three weeks after they rejected the same proposal, baseball owners did an abrupt pivot, ratifying a labor deal that provides for interleague play and at partially levels the playing field between big- and small-market clubs with a luxury tax. Many hardline owners had opposed the plan on the grounds that it did not do enough to control rapidly escalating player salaries. They were led by Chicago White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf, who just days after railing about the need to cap spending signed Albert Belle to a five-year...
When reporters pointed that out to him, Salinger seemed startled but was undeterred. Last week he claimed that on the evening of the crash an Air France pilot flying in the same area had made an abrupt in-flight maneuver, then announced that someone was firing missiles in the area. Salinger says his source was a passenger on the flight. FBI agents who interviewed Salinger soon after say he did not furnish the name of the passenger or the flight number. Federal investigators claim they interviewed the crews of all known flights in the area that night...
...Nation") and eastern Oregon farmers and ranchers, however, are more conservative, fueling the ongoing "lumber wars" and keeping the state's delegation to the House divided. In the Senate, two Republicans have held sway for nearly 30 years, but the party's dominance may be coming to an abrupt end: earlier this year, the disgraced Bob Packwood was replaced by a Democrat, and now Mark Hatfield is retiring...