Word: climaxes
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...lighting scheme that is not only excruciatingly intricate but also a key player in the production's narrative thrills. Each scene fades into complete darkness (and when the Pool Theater goes dark, we learn, it really goes dark), adding to the sense of mystery and building towards the final climax. In fact, when the lights go out for good, DeCleene and the directors seem to have all their bases covered; they play with a number of tricky light devices in order to prevent the audience's eyes from becoming accustomed to the dark (thus making set changes visible). Ultimately...
...compromising positions. He owned magazines, restaurants, resorts--an empire worth $30 million that critics claimed was built on nothing more than "sex and carrots." At age 45, he met, hired and later married a comely 19-year-old swimming champion with whom he toured Europe in an act whose climax was her jumping from a 7-ft. platform onto his flexed, trampoline-like stomach...
...they call the social skills," he is told in The Waterboy; that is Sandler's gimmick and, for many, his charm. The plot is a competition for which our hero is utterly unqualified but which he always wins, over some smarmy exemplar of the status quo and in a climax tinged with sentiment and demagoguery. After a Sandler speech in Billy Madison, the principal sagely notes that "everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it." That's how many people feel after watching a Sandler movie...
...coming to believe that one is a murderer. Reeve is touching, in part, because the role echoes his own story, but his talents seem undiminished, and his performance is very appealing in its own right. Unfortunately the movie itself is a disappointment, with a suspenseful set-up but flat climax...
...Originally published individually in magazines, sometimes under other titles, the stories contain a surprisingly strong amount of thematic cohesion. With a few exceptions, the tales each sport an intelligent but dissatisfied heroine, an almost fetish-like interest for said heroine, and a mired or low-key or entirely absent climax...