Word: denouement
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...outstanding. David Grimm's Fool didn't whine, mince his steps or sing in falsetto; in short he was masculine, a rarity in the role. Peter MacLean as Kent and Nicholas Kepros as Edgar had to sustain an air of good sense and authority through the play's anarchistic denouement. They did. The scenes during the storm when the disgusted Kent watches Lear, Tom and the Fool dancing madly across the Spingold's tilted stage were striking and lyrical...
...jump shot by Sedlacek and a pair of baskets by Gene Dressler gave Harvard a six-point lead. But three straight ball-handling errors by the Crimson enabled Princeton to tie it, 41 to 41. After that, the teams traded baskets until the agonizing denouement...
...there, she gets just mad enough to cry. The episode might be more affecting if Ruth Gordon had not made Mrs. Lord just as odious as her Goneril-and-Regan duo of daughters. As every contemporary playgoer knows, the family is an heir-conditioning unit: bitches beget bitches. The denouement is embarrassing, as Mrs. Lord marries one of those beamish Balkan boys with a rich grandmother fixation...
...this predawn denouement seemed melodramatic, it was nothing compared with the events that preceded...
...stems from the character of Con Melody. Partly because his pretensions are humorous, they must be portrayed as a somewhat deliberate pose. Melody, for all his perseverance, is putting it on. But deliberate pretensions cannot be ripped off with the same agonizing slowness as more unconscious fantasies. Thus the denouement in Poet is an obvious one, and it takes place in a disappointingly short time...