Word: climaxing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...into Seagaia. Every afternoon at 3 is the Fiesta del Sol, in which performers in big bouffant skirts, styled to look like coral reefs and Neptune's daughters, prance about and sing tunes like Gloria Estefan's The Rhythm Is Gonna Get Ya. As the party builds to a climax, a mist spreads across the sea, and water streams out from the fake cliffsides. "It doesn't look like Japan here," said Mayumi Murano, a 21-year-old worker at a milk company, who came with two friends during a special preview. And does it matter that the real ocean...
...very un-Japanese, the climax of an election week that had tipped the natural order of things upside down. The arrogant old conservatives of the L.D.P. lost the majority they had used to run the government unchallenged -- and almost unsupervised -- for 38 years. At the same time, the permanent and futile opposition, the Marxist-oriented Social Democrats, lost almost half their seats and slid further toward irrelevance. Both parties suffered their worst electoral showing ever...
Lloyd Webber's goal in recent years has been to bridge the gap between the musical and the opera, reclaiming the latter as a popular rather than elite form. An operatic reading does no disservice to Billy Wilder's film noir, which has been preserved more than adapted. The climax, when the fallen star Norma Desmond shoots her lover and he tumbles into a swimming pool, has opera's larger-than-life emotion. So does the denouement, as she lapses into madness and announces, to a Cecil B. DeMille visible only to her, that she is ready for her close...
...most of the attention to fall on Eastwood and the other players. He does show skill at foreshadowing by cleverly showing Frank empty his pockets early in the movie to build a joke as well as giving a long pan of the hotel tower to build suspense for the climax. In fact, the scenes form a nice web of interlocking pieces that help the film's consistency...
...streamline the story, infuse action into a narrative that is mostly lawyers chatting, give an emotional history to characters who are basically plot props and . . . please, a new ending. Grisham spun a lovely yarn -- the venality, the conspiracy, the flypaper guilt -- then let it unravel at the denouement. His climax had the hero in a Florida motel waiting for a FedEx package...