Word: denouement
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...stolid middle-aged body coils up youthfully like a spring. The ostensible plot of the film, the heist of the Deauville Casino, that Bob undertakes with his friend Roger (Andre Garet), is at once Bob's ironic revenge on Lady Luck--and a gamble itself, as the delightful denouement reveals...
...wake of last week's denouement, daily newspapers across the country editorialized that Bendix's shakedown cruise pointed up the need for stricter federal regulation. Undoubtedly true, but the recommendation is unrealistic in the Age of Reagan. More practically, the unseemly Bendix affair should provoke a little reassessment on the part of American industry, a realization that "mass merger" is equivalent to corporate suicide Last month's theatrics show that today's mergers often have nothing to do with efficiency and productivity. They stem, instead, from a sense of institutional machismo that craves acquisition. America's business giants have...
Despite the dramatic swiftness of the denouement, the early stages of the case were drawn out with all the familiar rounds of inventive appeals. Coppola, a former seminary student and policeman, had been convicted of brutally killing a woman during a 1978 robbery. By last spring, 34 judges had heard his various legal arguments, and still he sat on death row at Mecklenburg Correctional Center. Though maintaining his innocence, he dropped his appeals and asked that the execution proceed. "Further incarceration," he said, "can only lead to my being stripped of all personal dignity." His one request: a summer date...
Clearly alluding to the old-style battle that was moving toward a final denouement on the Falkland Islands, he said, "Today the scale and horror of modern warfare, whether nuclear or not, makes it totally unacceptable as a means of settling differences between nations. War should belong to the tragic past, to history...
...anarchist chappie," as he is called, moves close to his prey by captivating the susceptible Lady Charlotte, the earl's young daughter. Follett makes good use of a taut if predictable double subplot to forward Feliks' machinations and throw Cabinets, kings and boudoirs into turmoil. The denouement, in which all the major characters and half the British constabulary descend on Walden Hall for the signing of the Anglo-Russian pact, is one of Follett's finest, with a staccato performance by the deceptively cherubic young Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty. Winston's connivance...