Word: climaxing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would have been the perfect climax to a lengthy and noble postseason. Two weeks before, the Red Sox themselves had been one strike away from defeat in the American League playoffs when Henderson himself sent an 0-2 pitch into the bleachers, paving the way for a Sox victory...
Even a pre-MTV adult can find the game exhilarating -- for about an hour. Then it runs out of gas or fizzles out, as Gremlins 2 pretends to and ultimately does. At the climax, when other movies are accelerating, a dyna- movie must slow down in a vain search for emotional heft. By the end, viewers may be exhausted from information overload. Instead of leaving the theater with a rosy glow or warm tears, dyna-moviegoers feel like a James Bond vodka martini. They have been shaken but not stirred...
...Leonard ends up with two cruelly heavy suitcases filled with human remains is the climax of The Innocent, told with all McEwan's frigid skill. The last part of the book is a hilarious account of the young man's attempts to rid himself of his obnoxious burden. The cases won't fit in railway lockers. A dog smells their contents and tries frantically to avenge the canine species for centuries of subjugation. Finally exhausted, Leonard draws the vultures of both security and treachery to the tunnel...
...Cannes. The place was tense with anticipation. Early in the festival, Lyncholepts had lined up to see new episodes of Twin Peaks screened at the American pavilion. A few U.S. critics proudly brandished their foreign videocassettes of the show's pilot, for which Lynch shot a tell-whodunit climax not aired in the States. Europeans pummeled Americans for details of the series, which will begin airing overseas in the fall. Wild at Heart may have had less at stake than the East European films, but by the time it played, toward the end of the festival, the whole movie world...
...climax of the parade, the residents of Tikrit wheeled out a simple cabin, and people dressed in the robes of ancient Babylon and Assyria prostrated themselves before it. When the cabin split open to reveal a palm tree from which 53 white doves were released, Saddam appeared to a wave of applause...