Word: denouement
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...dramatic shoot-out at Black Rock brought an extraordinary denouement to one of the most convoluted, agonizing and, above all, public corporate power struggles in recent U.S. history. Wyman's departure was the climax of months of upheaval at CBS, caused in part by his efforts to elude a raft of corporate-takeover artists, ranging from North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms to Manhattan Arbitrager Ivan Boesky to Atlanta Broadcaster Ted Turner. The battle was also triggered by austerity and shrinking fortunes in the broadcast- television business, as No. 2 network CBS has struggled -- so far unsuccessfully -- to cope with losing...
After a four-month respite that, coincidentally or not, followed the U.S. air attack on Muammar Gaddafi's Libya, Middle Eastern terrorists were on the rampage once again. Only hours after the bloody denouement in Karachi, masked Arab gunmen stalked into an Istanbul synagogue during the morning Sabbath service and, firing machine guns, murdered more than a score of Jewish worshipers...
...suspense thriller known as The Perils of People Express took a sudden new turn last week -- but the denouement was not yet in sight. Almost three weeks after the revolutionary no-frills airline announced that it was looking to sell part or all of its operations to fend off bankruptcy, People found the buyer it needed. People's five-member board declared that United Airlines, the largest U.S. commercial carrier, would pay $146 million for Frontier Airlines, the Denver company that People picked up only last November. The same day, People's board rejected as "inadequate" an offer from Houston...
Gargantua defies analysis because it has no plot, no point and, as the narrator (Nick Davis) is careful to point out at the end of the play, no moral. It's good; it's scurillous; it's even sacrilegious. As the players tell the audience during the show's denouement--if you could call it that--the play is no more than "a healthy dose of sex and violence--in church, no less...
...denouement emerges in the final paragraph: "Williams, who has been on a lecture tour for three months, said his aim is to alert Americans that communist forces are infiltrating and subverting American society. He said the advances of pornography, the increased acceptance of homosexuals, and gains by anti-school prayer forces are examples of "cultural terrorism...