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Payback reaches its climax when Billy accepts construction work on a mob project site from Paddy, who realizes that for him, it is now kill or be killed. Both brothers are drawn into a death trap that no college education or mob connection can rescue them from...

Author: By Sarah D. Kalloch, | Title: Mob Novel With A Subterranean Twist | 2/13/1997 | See Source »

...Crimson travel to Pennsylvania this Saturday to take on the Quakers in its final regular season meet. Penn should pose little if any problem, but it will give Harvard one final warm-up before the season's climax...

Author: By Matthew F. Delmont, | Title: Men's Swimming Dominates Rivals | 2/11/1997 | See Source »

...Chechnya, a peace treaty with Russia has been signed, but skirmishes continue--the bloodshed has not ended with political accord. In Sergei Bodrov's film, "Prisoner of the Mountains," politics as usual leads to a horrific, numbing climax as absent-minded doctors send adolescents to war and tanks roll down hilly roads too beautiful for bloodshed. Based on the Leo Tolstoy short story, "Caucasian Captive," "Prisoner of the Mountains" brings the people, not the politics, of war to the dramatic forefront, capturing the paralysis and pain felt by families caught in the middle...

Author: By Sarah D. Kalloch, | Title: Bodrov Tells of Soldiers' Struggle | 2/6/1997 | See Source »

Conductor and soloist were once again equal partners in Webern's version of "Ihr Bild." The orchestra played movingly and, for the great climax, Baer puffed out his cheeks, stuck out his neck and sounded totally despondent as he attacked the last two lines: translated from the German, "And ah, I cannot believe/That I have lost...

Author: By Matthew A. Carter, | Title: Cleveland Orchestra Makes Triumphant Visit | 2/6/1997 | See Source »

...spaceage interior sets that will keep the eye titillated while the intellectual faculties take five. The spellbinding dogfight and final assault of the Empire's central nervous system that wind up "Star Wars" are particularly noteworthy for the way that Lucas so easily integrates the gimmickry into the climax...

Author: By Joe Contreras, | Title: "Graffiti" Director Delivers Cliched but Dazzling Epic | 2/6/1997 | See Source »

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