Word: climaxes
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...climax of this show is, inevitably, the Cathedrals, Monet's repeated views of the west front of the Gothic Cathedral of Rouen: art about art. Between 1892 and 1895 he produced 30 of them; ten are lined up in Boston. Some critics have shied away from them as pictorial near absurdities, Gothic rendered as melting ice cream, architecture without a line anywhere. It would be hard to argue this for long in front of the paintings themselves. How could such an endlessly complicated form as this Gothic facade, with all its peaks, hollows, spires, bosses and moldings, be so fully...
...climax, where all the tangles are unraveled and Love reigns supreme, is even better. The reconciliation of husband and wife, father and daughter, bitter foes, father and long-lost sons, Romans and Britons, master and servant, etc. provides enough humor to make the preceding hours of boredom seem worthwhile. There is even a moment of divine intervention to add the final touch. As an audience member remarked audibly: "It's better than a Saturday Night Live skit...
...Dark, and toward the end Blue Steel spins goofily off track. But it has a handsome time getting there, propelled by Curtis' sensible sensuality and Silver's bravura creepiness. These two help dramatize the danger any woman can find in the desperate intimacy of a big city. By the climax, Megan has to be thinking of Eugene and every other urban brute when she is again asked, "So what made you become...
There are, after all, certain things we expect upon entering a theater: characters, setting, plot, movement of this plot from exposition to climax to denouement. We cling to our conventions, even if we do not mean to, even if we do not want to. Convention is almost all we ever see--are we to blame...
...ballad throbs to a climax, the two singers look at each other in a confession of mutual need, and the title line of mock-bragging devotion, You're Nothing Without Me, reverberates from the rafters. All in all, a classic first-act finale -- except that in this musical the characters who vow undying fidelity are a nerdy novelist turned screenwriter and the hard-boiled detective he has created on page and celluloid...