Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...having made the bold decision to film the novel, Howard hasn't the energy to slap the thing to life. He's like a guide on one of the countless Da Vinci Code tours of Paris or London, doing it by rote, letting the film hobble to its climax with still more exposition. Good movies are show-and-tell; this one is all-tell, no-show...
...never interact onstage: an itinerant faith healer (who, being the title character, gets to talk twice), his wife and his manager. The actors ? Ralph Fiennes, Cherry Jones and Ian McDiarmid ? are wonderful, but this is one very long slog, with whatever dramatic momentum is generated dissipated by a climax of rather annoying obliqueness. This is the sort of self-conscious showcase for ?writing? and ?acting? that separates critics from ordinary theatergoers. In this case, I'm with the folks trying to stay awake in the mezzanine...
...Kaufman the director knew how to put on a splendid show. Of Thee In Sing, then and now, begins with convention delegates bearing such placards as "Wintergreen - the Flavor Lasts," "Vote for Posterity and See What You Get" and the meta-cynical "Turn the Reformers Out." The first act climax, set in Madison Square Garden, intersperses the political rhetoric with a wrestling match; the combatants briefly pause in a double-scissors lock to applaud one of the speeches, which is interrupted by the announcement of a hockey or baseball score - Boston Bruins 3, Chicago White Sox 1 - voiced here...
Condom boxes were installed in freshman dorms Greenough, Canaday, and Weld laundry rooms last Thursday, the climax of two and a half months of planning, involving the Undergraduate Council (UC), Community Health Initiative (CHI), and the Freshman Dean’s Office. This is the first time these little black boxes, which have been enjoyed by upperclassmen for years, will dispense free condoms to students in freshman dormitories. Previously, first-years were able only to obtain free condoms from peer counseling groups Room 13 and Contact, which have offices in the Yard, condom boxes in the upperclassmen Houses, or from...
...fussy, cowardly antics make him a loveable and laughable anti-hero.Spillane-Hinks’ directing is typically excellent; in this, her last show at the College, she demonstrates particular skill in drawing out dramatic tension in building the conflict between Christy and his father to its inevitable climax. She also places just the right amount of emphasis on particularly funny moments. Given the difficulty of the characters’ thick accents and rapid speech, Spillane-Hinks does an exceptional job in trying to make the action clear and understandable, although the quick exchanges at the beginning of the show make...