Word: climaxes
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...plays the role with powerful spite, and as the initiator of most of the action, prods the other characters into deeper levels of hatred. She is vehement. The three post-teeny boppers, played by Jessica Yager, Bess Wohl, and Rashida Jones, are bubbly and keep effervescing until the climax leaves them flat. The two widows, played by Rebecca A. Murray and Jenni Paredes, provide timely comic relief; their speech oscillates between keen observation of the way things used to be and transparent example-setting for why they must change...
...ceaseless demands leave him with hard decisions to make. He wants to preach redemption to as many people as possible while he still can: he is already committed to Atlanta, Cleveland, Ohio and Tokyo for next year. Then comes a career climax, a 1995 revival meeting that will span the entire globe at once. In this technological Pentecost, sermons will be translated into dozens of languages and transmitted by satellite TV to about 130 nations -- possibly including mainland China...
...which the show orchestrates the transition of hosts. Mike Nelson (Mike Nelson), the new host, is hired as a temp by the evilbosses to help organize their office for an audit.Meanwhile, Cambot, a third robot friend whoappears only in skits, plans Joel's escape. Iwon't reveal the brilliant climax, except to saythat Mike finds himself as Joel's unfortunatereplacement on the Satellite of Love...
...Mihae Lee onpiano, with, of course, Stephanie Chase on violin,managed the impossible. The first movement, markedAndante and filled with yearning two-note slursand melodies, was taken so slowly that it lackedall coherence; as if this were not enough, Rauchactually ritarded at the end of all his solos.Even the climax was brutally vertical, each notepounded into the stage with no forward motionwhatsoever. Additionally, although the players hadobviously coordinated their phrasing beforehand,each one merely read through his or her own part,seemingly disregarding the other musicians. Thesecond movement, a Scherzo, was more intriguing,as each repetition of a given part...
...course the sexual undertones range from subtle to blatant--to have time alone with Humbert, Charlotte Haze sends Lolita to Camp Climax, of all places. And Nabokov's narrative treats such themes as the role of the writer and the distinction between art and life, Freudian repression, myopia and the American obsession with the European Romantic...