Word: denouement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...COURSE. Death in a Tenured Position stubs its toes a few times along the way. Cross seems confused about the ages of her characters; a man who seems thirtyish suddenly becomes a World War II vet, for example. The denouement of the mystery is predictable and dull. And a minor annoyance: Cross's work suffers from the classic academician's addiction to the semi-colon. Alas, it is no surprise, considering Amanda Cross is, in real life, Carolyn Heilbrun, a tenured professor of English at (of all places) Columbia...
...remained on the ice: two at center ice, two goalies in the nets, and two pucks at the blue lines, ready for the simultaneous showdowns that would decide the contest. After the first round ended with both goalies prevailing, the crowd once again roared with excitement at the approaching denouement...
...were acting as middlemen in the negotiations, were dismayed. The straight-faced diplomat told them: "My authority expires then, and then I'm going." The Algerians swiftly notified Iran of this new development, and over the next 18 hours the 14½-month hostage ordeal finally reached its denouement. Whether the small gambit helped nudge the deal into place no one but the Iranians will ever know, but at least one top State Department aide thinks so: "The exercise proved that deadlines work...
...perhaps fitting denouement to their company's slide, Jones and Shaw early this month went to the Internal Revenue Service office in San Diego to arrange payment for their remaining $1,619 in back taxes. When the two businessmen were informed that they had just ten days to pay, an angry Jones demanded to know why they had not been told of that earlier. The IRS clerk replied calmly: "Probably incompetence around here. It sounds like a lot of red tape, but that's the Government...
Perhaps Pryor does too much watching: Wilder gets to do all the arabesques while his partner waits for him to fall to earth. Viewers too must stand around as Stir Crazy makes wrong turns, slogs across Saharas of unnecessary plotting, and unravels at its denouement. But that may simply make the triumph of Wilder and Pryor all the more savory. Recipe for a popular movie: take a series of stock situations, two gifted farceurs, and stir. Crazy...