Word: denouement
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...hidden background of European tragedy. She triggers memories of his murdered family. Dennison holds them back for 18 chapters while he deals with his ex-wife, his anti-Semitic father-in-law, his estranged daughter, and a series of Celluloid City sharks circling the swimming pool until the denouement...
...terrorist is threatening to do some eliminating of his own. For a lark, Sasser decides to probe, just the way his fictional heroes do. Thereafter troubles and murders begin in earnest. Tucker wanders a bit, tells some good jokes and provides a smashing and surprising denouement, in a dirigible high over Giants Stadium during a Monday-night football game...
COMING SOON TO A THEATER NEAR YOU. Salman Rushdie: eyes bloody, enveloped in flames, struck dead by an angry god. The Ayatullah Khomeini tried to arrange this denouement but wasn't able to bring it off before his own death last year, so a Pakistani studio has produced a movie that features three mujahedin setting out on a Rambo-style trek to kill the offending author of The Satanic Verses. In his celluloid incarnation, Rushdie is depicted as a boozy member of a Jewish cabal who lives in a luxurious palace surrounded by plump Punjabi bimbos and who likes...
There are, after all, certain things we expect upon entering a theater: characters, setting, plot, movement of this plot from exposition to climax to denouement. We cling to our conventions, even if we do not mean to, even if we do not want to. Convention is almost all we ever see--are we to blame...
...cross-country escapades of Joe Starling, a blocked painter who endeavors to "put his old life to an end" by stealing his girlfriend's car and setting out from Florida to reclaim the Montana ranch left to him by his father. As the plot progresses to its ironic denouement, Joe courts his teenage sweetheart, rekindles a love affair with the land and comes to terms with some family ghosts -- both dead and alive. Like most McGuane protagonists, Starling is at a gallop between his past and future, an existential cowboy with good intentions and bad habits, determined to take...