Word: denouement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Instead of permitting Bone to be a bewildered journalist, Hollywood has converted him into a moody pianist. In the embarrassingly incredible denouement, he ends his unhappy love life at the concert grand of the London Philharmonic as the building burns down around him and the flames lick his face...
...Denouement. The discussions were over. Back to Washington went President Roosevelt, carrying a leather-bound book signed by all the men who had taken part in the historic meeting. The news could now be announced, in a communique which hinted of the greater news to come...
...mystery of Military Science Two seemed well on its way to a denouement yesterday with unofficial word from Washington finally stating that men completing the basic course this month and already selected for advanced course training will go into Mil Sci 3 on a contract basis in the second semester. Official confirmation is expected momentarily...
...steel town. The film never gets beyond the coarseness. As a coal miner who marries the boss's daughter and by hook & crook becomes a boss himself, John Wayne is a thoroughly stereotyped Hollywood heel. Marlene Dietrich, cast as a rough diamond, looks like a phony one. For denouement, Pearl Harbor arrives to engulf all the characters in a spurious blaze of patriotism. Pittsburgh looks more like slag than good wartime metal...
...persisted, hoping for the dreams of which he had read. These came eventually and one of them, which recurred over some weeks, seemed to him to contain the key to the secret of the universe. With an enormous effort he managed one night to write the secret down. The denouement, he says, was disappointing, for on the following morning he read 'The banana is great, but the skin is greater...