Word: denouement
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...with a confession extracted under the extreme pressure brought to bear in emotional testimony, he merits another look. Travis' expression of this utter outrage towards Abigail's treachery, coupled with the poignancy of Proctor's impotence in defending himself with mere words against mounting lies, builds to a moving denouement with Proctor's non-choice between false confessions and ostracization, or truth and certain death...
...substantive flaws earlier on falls apart as Barnes' success plummets, and he and Archer face unemployment again. The Coens dwell on the demise as if to make a tragic and appear inevitable, but since this is supposed to be a comedy, no one has the patience for a moving denouement. The Coens drag us through it anyway. They have foreshadowed the final scenes in the opening sequence, and the movie lurches and grinds towards the unwelcome appearance of Barnes on the window ledge high above the street. Like the other executives before him, we have to watch Barnes take...
...York City was positively -- well, operatic. In the fiery lead role was the mercurial lyric soprano Kathleen Battle, renowned for leaving a trail of ill will in her wake wherever she goes. Opposing her were the forces of decorum and rectitude, represented by Met general manager Joseph Volpe. The denouement was catastrophe. Volpe, citing "unprofessional actions . . . profoundly detrimental to the artistic collaboration among all the cast members," summarily fired Battle from this week's production of Donizetti's The Daughter of the Regiment and withdrew all future offers. In so doing, he set off grand international choruses...
...time Joey Buttafuoco was sentenced to six months in prison for having sex with the teenage girl who later shot his wife, most Americans were probably sick to death of the Amy Fisher story. But for the syndicated magazine show A Current Affair, the courtroom denouement launched the tabloid- TV equivalent of Super Bowl week. When the sentence was announced, the show had cameras at the Buttafuoco home to monitor wife Mary Jo's reaction. When Joey was hauled off to jail, correspondent Steve Dunleavy was there to debrief him. Husband and wife were interviewed separately throughout the week, then...
...August," a family travels to an Italian castle owned by a Caribbean writer. The writer has remodeled certain parts of the castle, and thus metaphorically left his mark on Europe, but there are deeper and more ancient powers in the castle that assert themselves in the swift and brutal denouement. In "The Trail of Your Blood in the Snow," a Colombian woman goes into a Parisian hospital to be treated for a minor cut and is never seen again. The protagonist of "I Only Came to Use the Phone" ends up in a Kafkaesque insane asylum. The two children...