Word: denouement
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Between the original alarm and the denouement, Goldwater seized upon the opportunity to deride the communications system. Snorted Barry: "With the great communications system which McNamara is always bragging about, they are waiting for an airmail letter to find out just what did happen...
...pictures to Reyer -a cruel series of enlargements in which a kiss is blown up into a closeup of the lovers' lips, grainy, harsh, terrible. The husband is quiet while he studies the enlargements, then murmurs: "Happiness is so fragile." The picture's climax is bloody, its denouement is filled with despair...
...novel's only important lapse is its denouement-the fight with the kike man, which is written as if Friedman were trying to compose an allegory. When the man clobbers him on the ear, Stern "thrills with joy at still being alive," then feels "a warm shudder of sympathy for the man, who had been unable to knock him unconscious with the blow." He walks bloodily home, purged at first, then puzzled to find that the old fear of his enemy down the road is beginning all over again...
...denouement is complete when back in Stockholm, Doris is rehired and reunited with her fiance and Suzanne tears up an apologetic letter from Mr. Lobelius...
...caricature, the parody of Justice. They are half-sisters, whose fathers are not the same and who call each other names while honest folk twiddle their thumbs or rack their brains in the vain hope of seeing them reconciled." The truth of his observation is evident in the denouement. But this much I shall let you see for yourselves...