Word: denouements
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effect was such that I hastened to read some of Lovecraft's stories. I admit I disliked his stylistic mannerisms. He tells his tales through a troubled, dim, first-person narrator, and he saves the grisly denouement for the last sentence and then prints it in italics, as though that gives it greater shock value. Also repellent at first is the man's habit of stuffing his leisurely, Latinate sentences to repletion with adjectives and adverbs to modify, often tautologically, a stark noun or gruesome verb...
...months ago, no one suspected that Watergate was anything but an isolated incident, albeit an incident as despicable as any in the history of partisan politics. But as bits and pieces of the Watergate jigsaw puzzle fell into place, it became increasingly apparent that Watergate was actually the denouement of a highly successful campaign espionage team...
...understandably, for a menace to society. "I hate you so much it hurts," Suzy spits at Newman, struggling to summon an expression of pain to her ravishing countenance. Newman, looking carefully scruffy, like a Steiff animal mangled in the manufacturing, survives this as well as other abuse. The denouement finds him locked in deadly psychological combat with the bad guys in a bathysphere at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. Although Newman eventually sweats out crucial information from the suffocating villains, the ending might still be called unhappy: he resurfaces...
This spring Irving Wallace parlayed the Gospel according to St. James into a ponderous bestseller. Now comes a man called Peter Van Greenaway with The Judas Gospel. Agnostic Wallace wears a cloying, counterfeit faith on his sleeve in The Word's mawkish denouement, but Van Greenaway has the courage - and the talent - to spill his venom straight. The result is a brisk, tough and intellectually provocative novel...
...never really find out Mossman has purposely left the resolution in a haze of perpetual speculation. We can only guess why he has left the denouement in need of another. Perhaps because he sees in Dawes's death a firmer resolution. More likely, because a great deal of his material is taken from his own life. Dawes Oldham Williams is Dow. But to continue Dawes's life in conjunction with the life of Mossman would only lead to the writing of a novel and not death. So Dawes finds life in Dow Mossman, to a point. This point of departure...