Word: climaxing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Epps also says he is pleased with the apparent easing of the Black-Jewish tensions that reached a climax last year when the Black Students Association door-dropped a flyer titled "On the Harvard Plantation," which charged the University with institutionalized racism...
...first of the offensive jokes in "Seth Lives" to leap to mind is the series where Seth enrolled in a drawing class against his will, only to be pleasantly surprised when a buxom model walked in and began performing a strip tease for the class. The series' climax consisted of a really ugly fat man coming in the next day...instead of the pretty naked woman from the day before!! It should be said that anyone who has ever taken a drawing class--one that wasn't hijacked from a beer commercial--would know that a model never comes...
...quarreling. The fault here lies with director Alexander Franklin and Elisabeth Mayer, who seem to lose control of the play's pace. The dialogue moves beyond hectic into overload. The tension and excitement, rather than growing gradually between them, has built too fast and too early. The long-deterred climax is simply anti-climactic. Tighter direction and a gradual build-up of tension might have served to accentuate the dream like quality that the plot requires...
...sucked into the hurly-burly of the Danish court, now spat out. Director Arzhang Kamarei generates this hopeless tone from the outset: to the thundering strains of Mission Impossible theme song, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern race furiously round the stage on hobby horses. This wild dance builds to a galloping climax as the music ends, and then...nothing. As always, R and G rush around achieving diddly squat...
...those who still don't care who killed Roger Ackroyd, all murder mysteries look pretty much the same. A corpse is uncovered early. Midway through, a prime suspect emerges, only to develop an unshakable (or is it?) alibi. At the climax, a recklessly brave detective confronts the cunning culprit and somehow elicits a confession. Any detours along this well-traveled route are apt to involve the jiggery-pokery of disguises, coincidences and undisclosed facts. To aficionados, however, the mystery is not one genre but many, and similarities of plot are far outweighed by differences of setting, texture and world view...