Word: denouement
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Except that there is no room, no shirt and, for all we know, no woman named Suzi. These events, and their steamy denouement, exist only as text messages scrolling by on a computer screen and as libidinous images in the mind's eye -- in this case, the imagination of the three dozen men and women who have chosen this particular moment and this computer locale (the "sex" channel on the Internet), to exchange pseudonymous X-rated fantasies. Participants simply type in their best pickup lines and indicate what physical actions they are taking -- such as kissing or undressing...
Most striking was the piece's ending, seemingly stopping in mid-sentence, a denouement without a climax. The standing ovation received by Hovahness may have been out of love and deference for the man himself, but the piece alone, merited such exaltation...
...Like the denouement of "Old Yeller," everybody could see the end coming. But it was sad anyway...
Although the tone of A Violent Act is terse and dispassionate, it contains the elements of classic tragedy: terror, vengeance, catharsis. After the garish denouement, reports the author, there was even a dramatic letdown. As one of the Wright City folk stated, "It was like there wasn't nothing ; important to do anymore." She was wrong. One significant task remained -- giving dimension to people and events -- and Wilkinson has seen...
Germany's conflicts were on display at a demonstration held the Sunday before the Kristallnacht anniversary, when President Richard von Weizsacker tried to deliver an eloquent appeal against hatred from behind a phalanx of police shields, while leftist anarchists chanted "Hypocrites, hypocrites," and pelted him with eggs. That denouement nearly obscured the meaning of a day when 300,000 people had peacefully marched through Berlin to show opposition to the wave of racism and right-wing violence that has brought back ugly memories of an earlier Germany. Ever since last August, when a mob in Rostock besieged and burned...