Word: climaxing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...need to acknowledge that they are not bad feelings; they are human feelings," he said. I asked him why, in that case, the fight clubs in his novel caused so many problems. "Because it was a book, it had to go somewhere," he explained. "It needed a climax." It was a manly answer. Palahniuk wrote his book in three months; Stiffed took seven years. Men don't ask a lot of questions when they're looking for a climax...
...audience can't help but wish for him to pull the trigger--at least to end his escalating insanity along with the audience's suffering. Each time, he is interrupted, leaving the audience with no choice but to hold on (just barely) until the end. Even then, the climax of the story, which occurs when Dwayne meets Kilgore in a hotel bar, does nothing but confuse the audience even more. Dwayne comes to believe that he is a character in one of Kilgore's novels, and this realization sparks a series of violent outbursts. This mindless violence is followed...
...noses and sexual orifices in all the wrong places. Hardly Rodin. But then Rodin's Balzac, created just before the turn of the century, wrapped the great French novelist in a cape beneath which, it was said, he was holding his own member in the potent coupling of climax and creative genius. The work outraged its patrons and wasn't cast in bronze until after Rodin's death. Now it is considered a masterpiece that foretells the abstract sculpture that became a hallmark of this century...
...twin brothers are standing on a railway platform in Hengyang, saying what they think is their final farewell. It is a spring morning in 1949, and they are surrounded by refugees and wounded soldiers. China's civil war is reaching its climax. The 16-year-olds have received a letter that is to change their destinies forever. It is a message from their father Yang Deyuan: "You two take different roads, so no matter which side is going to win or lose, I will have a river on my left and on my right...
While Gill looks forward to the singlehanded Nationals, the climax of the fall season for the co-ed team will be the Atlantic Coast Championships, to be held at the MIT course on November 13. The qualifier for this event will take place next weekend at the three-division Danmark Trophy Cup, also at the Coast Guard venue...