Word: climaxes
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...narrative fiction. He was especially interested in what he called "middle structure" - "at the bottom level of a novel are sentences and scenes and paragraphs," he says. "Tiny particles of the story. At the top level is the easy-to-summarize plot - it's got some twist, a climax and a denouement." But at the middle level, he says, when you look at a book, chapter by chapter, "you don't get any guidance at all. What keeps you going?" Wroblewski says that the middle level of narrative is the trickiest part to parse, from an engineering perspective, because...
...greatest rivalry in horseracing reached a climax at the Belmont, when Affirmed nosed out Alydar at the finish. Affirmed won the crown, and Alydar was the bridesmaid all three times...
...War” is no “Catcher in the Rye.” Ares’ developmental transitions seem sudden and uninspired, and his experiences with puberty and teenage angst seem trite, almost cliché. After the story’s climax, when Ares covers for Malcolm’s fatal mistake, the novel’s narrative structure takes a dive. Years of Ares’ life are hastily, awkwardly summarized in a handful of pages, and Silver never fully explains the impact of Malcolm’s mistake on the two brothers and their relationship...
Mistaken for an Iraqi insurgent during the filming of “Dreams of Sparrows,” the documentary’s associate producer, Saad Fakher, was killed by American military troops while driving on a highway in Iraq. A scene describing his death marked the climax of the final film screened during “Contemporary Iraqi Film” series, a group of movies from Iraq shown in CGIS-S last Thursday through Saturday. Films included several documentaries, as well as the winning entries from Baghdad’s First International Iraq Short Film Festival...
...somber solo trumpet that opened the first movement, entitled “The Funeral March,” immediately drew the listeners’ attention. The trumpet was joined by the orchestra in a build-up of this theme of mourning, which escalated to a cacophonic agitation. This unsettling climax quickly gave way to a peaceful theme, dominated by sounds of strings and bassoons that werereminiscent of Eastern European music. The HRO, led by no less than four co-concertmasters, continued vacillating between tension and serenity, the latter being especially pleasant due to a strong cello section. The fourth movement...