Word: climaxing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even Scooby found an occasional secret passage, inviting seven-year-old minds to probe further, asking "Who could possibly want to destroy the amusement park?" However, in this play, the plot does not draw one in. Even when the audience learns the identity of the murderer, the climax of the play, there seems no suspense because there is no logical reason for his (or her) guilt. There are no clues, no plot progression or twists. The line are stale and occasionally incoherent, tangential to strang degrees. When Marge delivers a line about the British Royal Army in the context...
...Generally, with the Harvard crowd, they tend to show up a little later," captain Brad Konik said. "They tend to be bellow until there's a real climax to the game...
...Love! Valour! Compassion!, which nevertheless won a Tony last year for best play). There's no organic reason for Master Class to run the two acts it does; the second act doesn't deepen--it merely extends. And McNally's attempt to drive it toward an old-fashioned theatrical climax (one of the students ultimately mutinies against Callas' bullying) feels contrived. Even so, to watch so able an actress in so rich a role is an unfailing pleasure, whether...
...story comes to an apparent climax, logically enough, at a disco. (Watching a mostly-white crowd in polyester evening wear gyrating to bad funk riffs makes one remember what made the seventies so special.) In a drunken conversation with Joanne, Bobby comes to an epiphany about his romantic life, and he sums it all up as he sings "Being Alive...
Screenwriters Ann Biderman and David Madsen are copycats too, primarily of Thomas Harris' terrific novels Red Dragon and The Silence of the Lambs. Copycat is also faithful to other melodramatic conventions. The sympathetic gay friend will be killed. The brilliant schemer will go implausibly stupid at the climax. And the filmmakers will forget what Harris knows: that there is great horror and pathos inside these creatures. A sick mind is a terrible thing to waste...