Word: denouement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anarchist chappie," as he is called, moves close to his prey by captivating the susceptible Lady Charlotte, the earl's young daughter. Follett makes good use of a taut if predictable double subplot to forward Feliks' machinations and throw Cabinets, kings and boudoirs into turmoil. The denouement, in which all the major characters and half the British constabulary descend on Walden Hall for the signing of the Anglo-Russian pact, is one of Follett's finest, with a staccato performance by the deceptively cherubic young Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty. Winston's connivance...
...plot components do not parse. The best thrillers rarely traffic in linear common sense; nobody, including Raymond Chandler, ever figured out who killed the chauffeur in The Big Sleep. But they did evoke a world so cohesively ominous that when life and death eyeballed each other at the denouement, it mattered which one blinked first. No such laws operate in Diva. In an early scene, we see a harried woman trudging barefoot through a Metro station; she recognizes two men-a skinheaded punk and a swarthy rake-and smiles enigmatically as they pursue her out of our sight; she runs...
...furtive suggestions, their role as friends or captors remains unclear, not only to him but to the viewer as well The labyrinth never opens onto a clear space, and the ambiguities and doublecrosses are doubly frustrating because they are so obviously intentional. Too simplistic to captivate without a fitting denouement, the unsolved mystery fails equally much as a pure intellectual exercise...
...professional Nixon haters, this may seem a maudlin rendition of a self-inflicted denouement that was entirely justified. I was too close to events to see it that way. That night of Aug. 7,1 was nearly shattered by the human tragedy of the President seeking a solace beyond anybody's capacity to furnish...
...sought to keep the Government going had no idea when another eruption would start." This was Watergate, and in Part 2 of TIME'S excerpts from Years of Upheaval, Henry Kissinger describes how that "astonishing and shattering tale" unfolded. -Also in Part 2, the tale's dramatic denouement: the disintegration of an Administration and the fall of a President, and a moving account of two emotional meetings that Kissinger had with Nixon in the last hours before the resignation. -A compelling portrait of Richard Nixon, "a man whose nightmares had come true...