Word: denouement
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...influenced the course of history. In other circumstances, that man might well have been Richard Nixon. More than two years after the Watergate burglary, after months of scandal that left the nation divided and depressed, Nixon became the first American President to resign. Yet no matter how dramatic the denouement, Nixon's role was essentially passive and self-destructive; his Administration was at last overtaken by the slow, relentless working of the U.S. Constitution, the Congress and ultimately the public conscience. Nixon's departure was a strange and absorbing spectacle, but the great damage had been done...
...middle, through the string of serious, lamenting numbers just before the finales begin, is only partly the fault of the cast, but they do very little to improve things. A production of The Mikado stands or falls by how it handles the run of brilliant songs that carry the denouement from "Here's a How-De-Do" onward. Musical director Jon Sheffer doesn't take full advantage of the grand orchestral flourishes that are meant to be milked for all they're worth. The chorus never lets go and brings the house down. I got the impression the actors were...
...People's Army and the fall of Flash. Mr. Black capitalizes upon Flash's fall from grace in the public eye to implement his ideal, a kind of brave new world in which all men are artificial robots programmed to run at maximum efficiency. Preservation finds its denouement in Mr. Black's ultimate behaviorial mechanization of Flash, leaving one with many of the same thoughts as did A Clockwork Orange...
...massacre. His attorneys appealed that verdict in the civil courts, and last September a federal judge overruled the Army and threw out Calley's conviction, partly on the grounds that pretrial publicity had prejudiced his case. That set the stage for last week's double denouement: the civil courts released Calley pending the Army's appeal to uphold the conviction, and Army Secretary Howard H. Callaway paroled Calley, since he had served with good behavior a third of his sentence...
...bound, and denies the action. Only Nada feels what she says; and she is done in by a little knowledge. She sees Squatriglia's feeble but well-meant ploy, but not the larger deception that frames it. And Pirandello deprives us of the third and largest dramatic frame: the denouement that turns deception to the service of human compassion...