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...Leonard ends up with two cruelly heavy suitcases filled with human remains is the climax of The Innocent, told with all McEwan's frigid skill. The last part of the book is a hilarious account of the young man's attempts to rid himself of his obnoxious burden. The cases won't fit in railway lockers. A dog smells their contents and tries frantically to avenge the canine species for centuries of subjugation. Finally exhausted, Leonard draws the vultures of both security and treachery to the tunnel...
...Cannes. The place was tense with anticipation. Early in the festival, Lyncholepts had lined up to see new episodes of Twin Peaks screened at the American pavilion. A few U.S. critics proudly brandished their foreign videocassettes of the show's pilot, for which Lynch shot a tell-whodunit climax not aired in the States. Europeans pummeled Americans for details of the series, which will begin airing overseas in the fall. Wild at Heart may have had less at stake than the East European films, but by the time it played, toward the end of the festival, the whole movie world...
...book is Morgan's wildly reinvented con lingo. His ear fails him occasionally, when he uses lace-curtain language -- "caparisoned," "implacable mien" -- that some editor should have yanked from the manuscript with tongs. But at other times he's cooking: "Saturday night movies in the Gym were the social climax of the week. Everyone put on the Big Dog. The hucklebuckin hambones Afropicked and jerrycurled their cornrows . . . the vatos and street bravos wrapped their cleanest bandannas around Dippity-Doed razorcuts . . . the whiteboys splashed on fifi water . . . the Q Wing punks and B CAT queens greased on party paint and shimmied...
...climax of the parade, the residents of Tikrit wheeled out a simple cabin, and people dressed in the robes of ancient Babylon and Assyria prostrated themselves before it. When the cabin split open to reveal a palm tree from which 53 white doves were released, Saddam appeared to a wave of applause...
...destruction of Drexel at some point became inevitable. I'll accept the responsibility, and if I knew we had done things that were wrong, I would accept blame. What happened was a confluence of events, starting with the federal investigation ((of Drexel's junk-bond department)) and hitting a climax when the firm was forced to plead guilty and pay what we thought were unnecessarily high penalties (($650 million)). Congress then changed the rules by requiring savings and loans to sell their high-yield bonds, and the market for those securities fell. Then Drexel faced yet another rule change, when...