Word: climaxing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only logical that the plot will eventually climax in a hunt through Chance's native swamps. What's unexpected is that Wilfrid Brimley will be in the marshes fighting along side Van Damme as Chance's uncle. Between "The Firm" and "Hard Target," Brimley seems to be going to great efforts to banish the Quaker Oats guy forever...
Unfortunately, the climax and finale of the piece did not expand the whole but only continued it in predictable progression. The horns seemed to disappear by the end of their solos, and the bells did not really blend into the full landscape of the climax. Mehta later proved that the Israel Philharmonic was capable of true force, but here the power of a Brahms finale, even of such a relatively inconsequential piece, was noticeably lacking...
...concert was closed with Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra (1943), an alternately morose and satirical exploration of the space of the modern orchestra. The first movement began peremptorily, and gradually built to a climax of off beats and brass reminiscent of Holst...
After the first few verses, "Eileen" becomes a richly layered series of cascading guitar chords that turn this quick song strangely introspective, building into a musical climax with backups and clapping. The backups truly do the song credit--not obtrusive, but fulsome and satisfying. If your toe hasn't started tapping by now, you're just not coordinated...
...answered in the middle of the night by the fellow sharing his bed) blackmails Bobby with damaging photos. That forces Kennedy to break off the affair, which leaves Marilyn so distraught that she takes a fatal overdose of sleeping pills. The suicide scene is the film's lunatic climax: so many people scurry in and out of Marilyn's house as the actress lies dying (among them Peter Lawford, Bobby himself and an ambulance team that rushes her to the hospital and then back again, under orders from the FBI) that it looks like the stateroom sequence from A Night...