Word: denouement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...HIMSELF of his now unwelcome guests, Sihanouk began to allow a limited U.S. entrance into Cambodia, sanctioning American "hot pursuit" ground raids and B-52 bombing missions to clear the sanctuaries. Apparently, Sihanouk now feels that action was inadequate; in War and Hope he accepts his denouement, admitting that he fell because his policy towards North Vietnam failed...
...call for help from Cousin Logan. On the winding trail they deal with Indians (mostly good), women (aggressively virtuous), rustlers (as mean as copperheads), plus a menagerie of grizzlies, wolves, giant mosquitoes and the customary herd of bison. In addition, there are two elaborate fistfights and a six-shot denouement...
...inventiveness of despair, Carrie suggests that she and Oliver have a pretend-affair of their own to win their spouses back. The working of the ruse and the very clever denouement are as sacrosanct as the secrets of the confessional and the whodunit...
...rebalancing of the relationship between Nicholas and the orphan Smike, whom he rescues from an oppressive school in Yorkshire and tries to help. His efforts at this, his successes and his failures, are the core of the play, and the last moments-instead of being quite the cozy denouement arranged by Dickens-become a direct challenge to the audience, "a determination," as former R.S.C. Member Ian McKellen says, "to put laughter and tears into action...
...dead." Novelist J.B. Priestley counters, "Three-quarters dead though he might be, he was feeling his way towards yet another sort of fiction." That fiction is the modern mystery story, with its careful plotting, its characters subordinate to story, and its yielding of surprises as the drama moves toward denouement. To that end, Dickens wrote the only one of his work that can be summarized (although in his case that is like reversing an oak into a nutshell): John Jasper, choirmaster, lusts after Rosa Bud, betrothed to his nephew Edwin Drood. When Drood disappears, a young rival for Rosa...