Word: denouements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there are some great lines en route to the denouement. A doctor asks Groucho, as the converted veterinarian is about to give a patient a suspiciously horse-sized capsule, "Isn't that a bit large for a pill?" Groucho answers, "Well, it was too small for a basketball, and I didn't know what else to do with it." A nurse asks Groucho to okay a document, and he responds, "I'm much too busy--I'll put the O on now, but you'll have to come back later...
...powers are fast shriveling in the spiritual fallout from The Bomb, which he helped build. Intellectually and emotionally paralyzed, he attends a scientific conference in Moscow, befriends a Russian physicist whose experiments parallel Rennet's but whose conclusions do not. Rennet finally straightens himself out in a cliffhanging denouement three miles up in the Caucasus, while trapped by an avalanche. Along the way, Rennet, whose productive barrenness is matched only by his reproductive fecundity, seduces his own secretary, one of his Russian colleague's assistants (with whom the Russian is secretly in love, naturally), and an American expatriate...
...rival gang that never plays fair, an array of luscious showgirls, half-naked or otherwise, a huge bundle of stolen money that both sides are after, and various lesser mobsters that are always either being tortured or getting killed. This formula is slightly varied for each production, but the denouement is always the same; almost everyone dies violently, and no one gets the money. Grisbi follows this excellent tradition, except it isn't very good...
Aron affirmed that President de Gaulle's November 4 declaration calling for the establishment of an Algerian republic has brought France to the denouement of its six-year-old drama of futility and grief in North Africa. "This is the last chance for de Gaulle," Aron asserted. "It is the final crisis for the Fifth Republic." Aron estimated that if de Gaulle is to continue in power, the Algerian solution must be effected early next year. He emphasized, however, that no specific deadline could be set for the settlement...
...fears the prostitute's casual price policy will ruin his market, the hero initiates a program of cultural aid to the heroine's underdeveloped area: the mind. Obligingly, the heroine at first abandons the pleasures of the body, discovers the pleasures of the intellect. But in the denouement she also discovers that when nature is denied, spirit suffers too. The film ends with a blare of strumpets as the heroine leads a rousingly hilarious red-light revolution and the luckless hero sails home sadder but wiser...