Word: denouement
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After the weekend, the euphoria passed and increasing numbers of students returned to class. A two-hour sit-in Monday at the Cambridge draft board drew only 100 persons and the novelty of the Mass Hall occupation wore off. The denouement hit rock bottom at the Tuesday night mass meeting, which had been slated by the first gathering to "discuss the response of both the Harvard Administration and the U.S. to the current crisis...
...Shea) has a lickerish eye on Fay the nurse (Lee Remick), whose charms are available at an ever accelerating price. Investigating them all is a detective called Truscott (Richard Attenborough), who fancies he is fooling everyone by disguising himself as a member of the water board. At the denouement, just deserts are enjoyed...
...understand Miss Blustein is under a suspended requirement to withdraw from the College...She is not, therefore acceptable..." But it's too late; the reference to Blustein has forced his hand So in the last major paragraph of the very last letter, the entire convoluted relationship collapses into a denouement of Dunlop-ex-machina: "Finally, the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has expressed serious concern over recent events at Harvard and elsewhere...
...essay describing all this is laden with references to the then recent assasination of Bobby Kennedy, the strangely ominous atmosphere of the Easthampton party, and suspicions of a spontaneous assassination attempt on Mr. Mailer himself. The denouement of the film came, we are informed, when on the last day of the week Mr. Rip Torn attacked Mr. Kingsley Mailer with a seriously weilded hammer, hit him on the head with the flat of it, and in return had his ear bitten bloody. We wonder whether Mr. Mailer might really have been more pleased with the way the film emerged...
...Hughes affair appeared last week to be headed toward a denouement. Its elaborate mysteries began to unravel a bit. Its bafflements still invited ingenious hypotheses, yet it seemed likely that after episodes as odd as the circumstances of Howard Hughes' own life, the truth of the matter was about to emerge. In a reverse jigsaw-puzzle effect, the outlines of the truth began to take form as Author Clifford Irving's account of how he had assembled the Hughes manuscript began to crumble...