Word: climaxes
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...climax of the novel Virginia is told by her aunt the reason for her family's sudden uprooting to Arizona: Virginia's mother's discovery of her father's incestuous relationship with his sister...
...know how its going to finish. It's not that you don't know anything about it, but that some kind of discovery has to happen in a piece of writing for it to be engaging. It happens and what you thought was going to be the climax happens quicker or more stunningly or deeper than you imagined. What you thought was going to be the ending...
...complicated, involving a conversation between a somewhat disturbed thirty-year old woman Lulu (Jessie Cohen) and a middle-class younger Black man Clay (Michael McNeal) in a New York City subway car. Lulu's accusation of "Uncle Tom" provokes Clay to an angry and bitter tirade which forms the climax of the one-act play. The climax is, however, not followed by an expected resolution: Lulu stabs Clay to death...
...this point the council will become considerably duller, with the semester's political climax over and only the more perfunctory business of governing remaining. First-years will note that the upperclass students who so eagerly wanted to ease their arduous transitions from non-U.C. member to U.C. member are no longer stopping by their rooms, now that their elections for executive board member are over...
...Here again he is X- raying the gnarled psyches of Manhattan's glamourati: Gabe and Judy and their best friends Jack (Sydney Pollack) and Sally (Judy Davis). Each is in some stage of a mid-love crisis; each married partner is given the chance to follow a flirtation to climax or catastrophe. Typically, Allen deals himself the highest cards. Gabe alone can resist temptation and take himself "out of the race. I don't want to hurt anybody or be hurt...