Word: denouements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
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...