Word: climaxing
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...ghoulish climax, less than 48 hours after the assassination, Oswald was murdered right in the Dallas police station, by nightclub manager and police hanger-on Jack Ruby...
...technique, which is a skillful blend of narrative action, reminiscences about Dorothy and Paul from those who knew them, interviews with Dorothy after she became famous, and blood-drenched flashbacks to the afternoon of the murder, is that you know the ending, and must wait uncomfortably for the violent climax. The acting is uniformly excellent, the camera work unobtrusively effective, and the cinematography by frequent Bergman collaborator Sven Nykvist superb. Sleazy glitter is shown in a drab light that seems to have been filtered through all of the cocktail lounges in Los Angeles. But it is difficult to appreciate technical...
...everyone's mind this afternoon. A share of the Ivy title (with the winner of the Penn-Dartmouth game) or an outright crown (if the Green and Quakers tie) is on the line for Harvard. But more important, the Crimson hopes the 100th Game will be the climax of a successful 10-game season, and not a one-game failure of a season that overshadows the other nine-tenths...
Giella will give it one last try this Saturday when Harvard visits the Yale Bowl. "I've been thinking about this game since my freshman year," Giella says, "and now here it is--the climax of my entire atletic career...
...shallow self-esteem too easily, and the frightened Hat runs for shelter behind the person of the superior white master. Sam refuses to accept the yoke of servility. As the tension peaks, Hal spits in Sam's face. The expressions of each of the characters fires the climax without a single line being uttered: pained horror on Willie's face, bittersweet remorse for Hal, and disappointment and remarkable self-control in Sam. "A long time ago, I vowed to try to do something," Sam broods, "but you showed me that I failed...