Word: climaxing
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...real life Eva Peron actually spoke most of her lines). "Dramatizing Larry Flynt was walking a tightrope--include too many contemptible events, and the audience turns off," concede the film's screenwriters, Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, in an introduction to the published version of their script. Its climax revolves around the libel suit filed against Flynt by the Rev. Jerry Falwell, which led to the famous 1988 Supreme Court decision saying it's O.K. to poke fun at public figures, even to say--as Hustler did of Falwell--that they have sex with their mothers in outhouses...
...20th century, but he remains comparatively underknown in Manhattan. Thirty-one years have passed since a New York museum devoted a show to his work. Why this should be, one can only guess. Presumably it has something to do with the belief that purely abstract painting was the climax of modernism, so that a painter whose entire sensibility was bound up with the desire to narrate large themes of love, death, myth and memory through allegories enacted by human figures went against some of the most cherished, indurated dogmas of the American art world...
...resolution of the play comes as something of a surprise. After developing the conflict for 45 minutes, everything magically comes together in the last five minutes of the play. This abrupt resolution robs the play of any real climax: the rising action gives way to immediate resolution. And if the lights don't go down to let you know the play is over, you might end up sitting there, waiting to be told that everything is finished...
...final room is the climax of the exhibit. The color of the walls has been darkening with the progression of the photographs: the first room is light gray, the next room medium gray, and this final room dark gray, set with a few giant portraits like luminous beacons in the dimness. There is Frances Bean Cobain, almost frightening with her enormous eyes. Christopher Reeve, mounted on an elaborate wheelchair, somehow looks just as much like Superman as ever. The exhibition's final statement is a long, large strip of white upon which the figure of Bill T. Jones is repeated...
...questions. This is real life, so there was no made-for-TV bombshell--no weeping O.J. confessing, no furious O.J. tripped up by damning contradictions. But merely watching him up there, at last being called to account for his actions in his own words, provided its own sort of climax. It was as if, after several acts of a melodrama with a convoluted plot and a cast of thousands, the protagonist finally took center stage...