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...climax of the novel occurs at the actual funeral of Matilde Neruda. Thousands of communists, Leftists and friends converge on the local cemetery to protest and to show respect for the dead, including the perennial drunkard Juan Lopez, or Lopito, as he is known to his friends including Vera and Torre. Angered by a policeman's laughter at his incredibly ugly and clumsy daughter, Lopito picks a fight with the machine gun man and is put in jail without bail...
Fast food too. In their week at a North Woods cabin, Nice Guy John Candy and his family encounter every unimaginative pestilence: bats, raccoons, stubborn horses, runaway water skis, acid indigestion, puppy love. And, worst of all, a plague of relatives led by Slime King Dan Aykroyd. The comic climax comes when a bear gets its buttocks fur blown off by a shotgun. Anyone out there laughing...
...about $1 million each for costumes, sound and the elaborate hydraulically powered sets. About a third of Jujamcyn's $500,000 investment was spent on repainting its Virginia Theater black, to suit Carrie's somber theme, and on installing electrical wiring for effects like the laser barrage at the climax, when Carrie burns down her school...
With its purloined letters, incestuous jealousies and galloping neuroses, A Time of Destiny spins enough plot for a year of Falcon Crest, then filches its climax from Hitchcock's Vertigo and Saboteur. So how come nothing works? Maybe because this family farrago is played for keeps, instead of for the laughs it accidentally evokes...
...climax of our season," Harvard sophomore Robi Soni said. "We let loose all we had, but it wasn't good enough. It makes our chances of making the NCAAs much lower. But we're still looking forward to winning the Ivy title...