Word: climaxes
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...pinwheeling bozo in The Falcon and the Snowman. Here he is all static electricity, forcing a smile through the sour taste in his mouth, weighing filial devotion against conventional morality, trying to figure out what his body will tell his brain to do next. And when, at the climax, he confronts Brad Sr. over a string of domestic crimes ("Is this the family gun, Dad?"), Penn gives the movie, and his career to date, a sensational payoff. Worry over the film's shortcomings while you watch it, but put this performance in the time capsule...
...embrace was the climax of an 80-minute ceremony last week during a historic pre-Passover call by John Paul at the synagogue; it was the first time that a Pope is known to have visited a Jewish house of worship. Initiated by a personal request from the Pontiff, the carefully planned event included mutual declarations of respect by the Pope (who twice used Hebrew phrases) and the Chief Rabbi, Bible readings, hymns and the rendition by a cantor and choir of Ani Ma'amin, a traditional profession of faith sung by Jews as they were...
...syllables to underscore the sarcasm; their steps are punctuated by the swish and rattle of chains. The costumes display Fosse trademarks: white gloves, hats, spangled tuxedos. So do the dances, with their hip and shoulder rolls, backward exits and slithering one-hand gestures down the torso. The first-act climax, a mob convulsion set to Beat Me, Daddy, Eight to the Bar, recaps the form-in- formlessness trick that Fosse calls "the amoeba." His sultry sexual trio for Me and My Shadow derives from his Tony-winning Steam Heat for Pajama Game...
...conventional musical comedy this convoluted climax to the first act would simply be the lead to a satisfying conclusion in act two. Things do conclude, in a sense, but The Yeomen, so unsoothingly heavy for a light opera, trundles forth to a decidedly unsettling...
...human situation through a dialogue between a daughter and mother. The problem--if it really is a problem--with Footfalls is that it is impossible to determine who is the mother and who is the daughter. The play thus becomes very impressionistic, with no evidence of a climax or resolution--but then again, this is Beckett's fundamental opinion about life...