Word: climaxes
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...Tommy Tune and Drew Barrymore finding new steps for some unforgettable old melodies. Nor would anyone think of shooting the piano players. Michael Tilson Thomas opened with Rhapsody in Blue. Later Leonard Bernstein brought a furious solemnity to Gershwin's Prelude in C-sharp Minor. And at the climax Movie Maestro Johnny Green unearthed half-century-old arrangements of Gershwin songs and made them swing like...
...orchestrated car chases do linger on, and red-neck ribaldry can pale after a while, and maybe Glen shouldn't have to run smack into a cactus. But who can blame the Coens for blowing up their tale into conventionally funny shapes? Besides, as the brothers demonstrate at the climax, round is funny too. And more than a little poignant. The plot circles back to the quints' nursery, and then to the McDonnoughs' bedroom, where Hi has the strangest dream he dare consider. It is a vision into the future perfect, of middle-class stability and continuity, of a purloined...
...Innocents saves the best for last, the latter part of the second act building up nicely to the surprising climax. But it's not enough, and the play is only OK compared to James' gripping novel...
...Lisa Bonet is a remarkable screen presence, though an uninteresting actress, in the underwitten role of Epiphany Proudfoot. However, considering how ruthlessly she is defiled publicly for the enjoyment of the audience, one wonders why she would ever have accepted the role. The film's climax is also surprisingly effective, if only because it gives some meaning to the previous one and a half hours...
With the exception of death, nothing seems likely to interrupt the boozy monotony of such played-out lives. Amis does, as it happens, kill off one of his major characters, with no warning at all. But this end is not a climax. The novel's conclusion echoes with small regenerations, salvages hoarded against the arrival of the inevitable. The comfort is cold but no less welcome for that. The Old Devils is not quite Amis' funniest book; it is his wisest and most humane...