Word: climaxing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they call the social skills," he is told in The Waterboy; that is Sandler's gimmick and, for many, his charm. The plot is a competition for which our hero is utterly unqualified but which he always wins, over some smarmy exemplar of the status quo and in a climax tinged with sentiment and demagoguery. After a Sandler speech in Billy Madison, the principal sagely notes that "everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it." That's how many people feel after watching a Sandler movie...
...Originally published individually in magazines, sometimes under other titles, the stories contain a surprisingly strong amount of thematic cohesion. With a few exceptions, the tales each sport an intelligent but dissatisfied heroine, an almost fetish-like interest for said heroine, and a mired or low-key or entirely absent climax...
...climax, Hubbard arrests Devereaux for the torture and murder of Tariq Husseni, an American citizen, and reads the general his Miranda rights. "There's a swelling of music and you feel like that's what America stands for, the rights that he's reading, that apply even to this American Caesar, [played by] Bruce Willis," Bybee suggests. "[These rights] have become soaked into our culture, part of what we think of as the guarantees of American freedom and what we stand...
Reducing the prevelance of the flashbacks, the opera tells the story sequentially, with an ending climax where Ethan and Mattie have an aria "reminiscent of Macbeth--a crossing of the paths" which makes use of the Neapolitan scale that followed Allanbrook Sr. home from the Santo Carlo Operas. Egan, who spent the summer working at the Santa Fe Opera with Jonathan Miller, will be stage directing the preformance, and his hand-picked cast promises a great show...
...climax of the evening, however, began after a block of three songs from Rusted Root were played in succession. The band realized that the crowd needed to hear something familiar for rejuvenation--and Lord Almighty, did they get it. Donovan started the drum intro to "Martyr," the most deliriously happy song on When I Woke, and was soon followed by Glabicki's playing of the opening guitar riffs. The crowd, quite simply, went wild. The energy practically shot through the roof--suddenly jocks in baseball caps, hemp-wearing, adolescents and men with very long bears were jumping up and down...