Word: denouement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Immediately afterwards, Captain Wes Flint rippled over the 220 lows in 23.8, just two tenths of a second off the Harvard record, but instead of being the meet's clincher, it was only the denouement...
...dishes of menace as a suspect gentleman in a turban, and some reasonably exciting mayhem in a pitch dark hangar. Gradually the investigators realize that they have unwittingly been flying the Hump for a gang of jewel thieves who will stop at nothing-not even the picture's denouement...
...prostitute with sympathy rather than derision is artistically accomplished and the mother's benevolent attitude toward her wayward daughter is made understandable, not ridiculous. The clash of wills between the unrelenting, religious father and his family is demonstrated so convincingly by inference in the preliminary scenes that the final denouement and ensuing household-rending fight seems unavoidable rather than contrived...
Hamilton's mystery, despite its premature denouement, is properly grim and gripping, and if the actors occasionally fail to inject into the lines all their inherent terror and sombreness of mood, a competent framework is still present. Making all the necessary preliminary reservations about summer productions, they have an interesting chiller on Brattle Street this week...
...fading, its denouement was not. Opinion polls showed that the overriding subject of U.S. interest was still, as at any given moment since Hiroshima, the atom bomb. Never before since the pollsters set up shop had one topic evoked such continuous, prolonged, intense public concern. Nothing-not the homecoming of the heroes, not strikes nor reconversion, the Pearl Harbor investigation, the housing shortage nor this week's Big Three meeting, not even Santa Claus -had been able to drive the bomb from topmost place in the U.S. mind...