Word: denouement
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...slam-on-the-brakes ending further unsettles the audience. Orton is too clever to present a simplistic, Marxist denouement where the proles emerge victorious. Instead, when the campers achieve their victory, they, including fireball Kenny, are unwilling to face up to what they did. The Erpingham insurgents begin to praise their own dictator; "revolution" accomplished nothing. They are back to square one as is the audience. The audience must be wondering who or what to believe in, and Orton's nihilism offers little comfort...
...would be a sad denouement to a once sparkling career. Before his appointment to the NSC, Poindexter was considered the model of the fast-track Navy officer. His superiors seem to have marked him early as a potential Chief of Naval Operations -- a position that was long thought to be Poindexter's own goal -- and to have carefully groomed him for the job through a judiciously chosen mixture of Washington assignments and sea-duty posts...
...Constitution. Every day it attends to the pleas of lust, rage, unborn life, the killer's remorse, the President's prerogatives, the First Amendment rights of a Ku Klux Klansman. The Constitution even makes a ritual appearance in the American television cop show: there comes a moment of denouement when the detective, triumphant but sardonically obedient to the Miranda decision, snaps the cuffs on a suspect and growls, "You have the right to remain silent. You have the right...
However, as in most Spenser novels, there is also an emotional denouement. In Pale Kings it involves how Caroline Rogers, the wife of the police chief, handles both the loss of her husband and her son Brett, who just happened to be under Esteva's employ...
...American financial system are, especially in the depressed oil patch. When officials from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation shut down the bank last week, TIME Correspondent Richard Woodbury went along to see how such an operation is carried out. As it happened, the drama had an unexpected denouement. His report...