Word: denouement
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...continuing Washington stalemate over energy policy resembles nothing quite so much as a soap opera: at the end of each episode, events swirl toward a grand denouement only to emerge in the next episode as tangled as ever, with nothing really resolved. Last week, after battling through their third showdown in two months over petroleum prices, the White House and Congress found themselves still caught in a deadlock that raises serious questions about how far and how fast oil prices will be allowed to rise, how the U.S. will reduce its dependence on foreign oil, if it does...
Boycotts and Shouts. The denouement came late Friday, when Costa Gomes convened the M.F.A.'s General Assembly at Tancos, hoping to gain its backing for the appointment of Gonçalves as chief of the general staff. But the meeting was boycotted by delegates from both the army and the air force, which sent only their chiefs of staff to represent them. It degenerated into a shouting match. Seeing how little support he had, Gonçalves accepted the inevitable and−in the euphemistic phrase of the official communiqué−"declined the place of chief...
...seemed to have a will of their own, and the will was to lose. After a long series of catastrophic starts, Jordan finally admitted that his confidence, his control and his aspirations had come to nothing. "My career was no aesthetically well-made movie," he confesses, "rising action, climax, denouement. It was a box strewn with unnumbered slides...
...reader. Soon the African earth and its plowman conspire to give the novel its center and its soul. The lyricism cannot last. Mehring cracks up principally because the author must punish the undertow of racism that tugs at all his small virtues. To bring about the denouement, Gordimer resorts to a trick best relegated to gothic potboilers: the corpse that will not stay put. The body of a black man, apparently murdered, appears on Mehring's land. He has it buried. A flood brings it up again. The constant resurrection shatters the farmer. As the book ends, Mehring comes...
GEORGE BALL, 65, Under Secretary of State in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations and now an investment banker in New York City, who opposed the commitment of U.S. forces to Southeast Asia: "It always seemed that this would be the denouement. It was clear when the Paris accords were signed that they would be violated by both sides-and they were. Now we must be careful to read the right lessons for the future. First, we must be critical and cautious where and how we commit American power. In South Viet Nam there was no political structure sufficiently sturdy...