Word: denouement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chap who may or may not have been sent to his doom by the director's pursuit of a terrific death scene. In return the young man will get protection from the police. Cross is as good as his word in the matter, but before the happy denouement he puts Lucky through a sort of Berlitz course in existentialism. In his Godlike role. Cross redefines the stunt man's reality for him every day, thus forcing the youth into a perpetual state of imbalance, where he must constantly re-examine his own premises. Is the leading lady (Barbara...
...necessary. Fairbanks, it happens, has an affair of the heart with the President's daughter Lynne. He also has a consuming hatred for the Haldermanic White House Chief of Staff, Fritz Gimbel, who may or may not have murdered the Secretary. The plot builds up to a superb denouement. One wonders if all is fiction. For example, President Webster's description of Congress: "A collection of minor-league dipsomaniacs and fugitives from dementia praecox. "Echoes of Harry...
...fittingly larger-than-life denouement to one of the grandest money-losing speculations of recent history, and it provided a blunt reminder that even billionaires can get in over their heads. With their dreams of cashing in on last winter's silver boom now transformed into mushrooming debts of $980 million, Bunker, Herbert and Lamar Hunt have been struggling all spring to fend off ruin. Papers on file last week in the Dallas County Courthouse, and elsewhere around the country, showed just how desperate their plight has become, as well as the extent of their fabled wealth...
...Guthrie follows the assassin's trail to Zurich. There he learns that Grand Slam is controlled by a pillar of the Swiss banking establishmenta Soviet spy for 40 years. Surprise follows revelation, and it detracts nothing from the novel to note that Sadat survives the savage denouement at the Zurich clinic. In case of real medical emergency, the Egyptian President might be better advised to go to the Cairo hospital used by the Shah...
...apartments. Almost as pressing as the need to save the Queen is the absolute necessity of keeping the siege secret. Otherwise, more than 100,000 enraged Britons might storm the palace and ensure her death. Walter Nelson, a London-based American writer, builds his picaresque story to a touching denouement, with some time out for farce. Siege is his first novel, and it will be a hard one to follow...