Word: denouements
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...identity, or any inkling of how she got into his apartment and his life. His exwife, his son, his parents, even his psychiatrist-all appear to Hibben in his delirium, prodding him inexorably toward the unpleasant Krafft-Ebing revelation concealed behind that coy yellow band. In the denouement there are traces both of Psycho and the Roger Ackroyd device: Are you sure you should trust the narrator? But Ellin conceals his key surprise in a phonetic note written by a distracted Mexican housemaid: Noscool sonic comic loc. Work that out and the solution may fall into place. Since the note...
...Nixon's negotiators do not want a grand denouement to the war. They want merely a cease-fire in place, which would be followed by a total U.S. withdrawal in four months, in return for release of the U.S. prisoners. The central political issue of who controls Saigon-vital to you but less and less important to the U.S.-would be settled later by the two Viet Nams. As Washington, and almost every Communist capital, sees it, cold logic simply demands an agreement along those lines...
...crime, readers are treated to idioms in several languages and quotes from the likes of Horace and Kipling. They are also encouraged to consider such things as the qualities of Napoleon's marshals, and unexpected parallels between a Feydeau farce and suspense fiction (the inevitability of a preposterous denouement...
...convention with his pleas for civil rights; he had been thought too radical all through the '50s, lost out to John Kennedy in 1960 and to Richard Nixon in 1968, and lived to find himself rejected as L.B.J.'s contaminated lieutenant in 1972. It was a bitter denouement, and in private Humphrey was uncharacteristically vitriolic about it. Two days later he said: "They said if I won, I'd never get the convention to make it unanimous. Well, they didn't make McGovern's nomination unanimous either. Notice that...
...weak head. Danny sticks up for Ben when the nasty policemen want to kill him, even vis its him in his sewer home somewhere under Wilshire Boulevard to warn him that the cops are coming with fire hos es and flamethrowers. Such touching devotion leads to a dewy denouement that paves the way, alas, for still another sequel...