Word: climaxes
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...Generally, with the Harvard crowd, they tend to show up a little later," captain Brad Konik said. "They tend to be bellow until there's a real climax to the game...
...story comes to an apparent climax, logically enough, at a disco. (Watching a mostly-white crowd in polyester evening wear gyrating to bad funk riffs makes one remember what made the seventies so special.) In a drunken conversation with Joanne, Bobby comes to an epiphany about his romantic life, and he sums it all up as he sings "Being Alive...
Screenwriters Ann Biderman and David Madsen are copycats too, primarily of Thomas Harris' terrific novels Red Dragon and The Silence of the Lambs. Copycat is also faithful to other melodramatic conventions. The sympathetic gay friend will be killed. The brilliant schemer will go implausibly stupid at the climax. And the filmmakers will forget what Harris knows: that there is great horror and pathos inside these creatures. A sick mind is a terrible thing to waste...
Still, Cochran acknowledges that this was a turning point in the case. "If you look back," he says, "people at that time understood this is gonna be a war. When it came to issues of race it was not gonna be any patty-cake." The war would climax over the Fuhrman tapes, a pyrrhic victory for the prosecution. Says defense lawyer and Santa Clara University law-school dean Gerald Uelmen: "When I think of how close we came to not having those tapes, it sends shivers down my spine...
...Whooping," a kind of delivery that characterizes the southern Black preaching tradition, blends sermon with song. Typically, the sermon begins slowly and builds toward a climax as the preacher finds the right...