Word: climaxes
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...think of it, The Limits of Control is like a Bourne film, except one in which everything goes smoothly for Jason, the workdays include a lot of napping and there's no blood, although cinematographer Christopher Doyle does regularly frame our hero against sumptuous red surfaces. At the climax, when confronted with a seemingly impenetrable fortress, instead of scaling walls and snapping necks, our hero just thinks his way inside. No fuss, no muss...
...Origins: Wolverine is an O.K., not great, Marvel movie that tells the early story of the prime X-Man, and attempts to make it climax in a perfect coupling with the start of the known trilogy. In doing so, the film tears off a bit more than it can devour. The whole enterprise now spans a century and a half, runs backward and forward in time and expands the number of characters in the mythology, so they'll get their own prequels and sequels...
...York at the renowned Savoy Ballroom, Haynes’ opportunities multiplied, allowing him to collaborate with everyone from Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, and John Coltrane to Stan Getz and Chick Corea. “[Coltrane] was one of the first artists playing an instrument to come to a climax, bring it down, and bring it right back up again,” Haynes recalls of his time playing with Coltrane just a few years after the release of “Giant Steps.” Another particularly special partnership for Haynes was with female jazz vocalist Sarah Vaughan. Playing...
...alternates between the perspectives of Jessica and Marcus. Another section is entirely rapid-fire dialogue. These sections punch up the emotional power of the prose.They also contrast with the distancing effect of the rest of the book, a trade-off to access both main characters’ interiors. The climax is written in fragmented phrases from the rest of the series, strung together to suggest the onslaught of associative memory inside the characters minds. McCafferty is at her best in first-person, but this change in point of view deals appropriately with the questions of narrative and memory that...
...Goldman reached this trading climax with the help of TARP funding," says analyst David Hendler, who follows Goldman and other financial firms for CreditSights. In a report to clients, Hendler wrote that subsidized funding from the government has "manufactured" these outsized gains for Goldman. "Goldman's results were unbalanced and . . . . due to extremely high risk taking...