Word: denouements
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...mystery of Military Science Two seemed well on its way to a denouement yesterday with unofficial word from Washington finally stating that men completing the basic course this month and already selected for advanced course training will go into Mil Sci 3 on a contract basis in the second semester. Official confirmation is expected momentarily...
...steel town. The film never gets beyond the coarseness. As a coal miner who marries the boss's daughter and by hook & crook becomes a boss himself, John Wayne is a thoroughly stereotyped Hollywood heel. Marlene Dietrich, cast as a rough diamond, looks like a phony one. For denouement, Pearl Harbor arrives to engulf all the characters in a spurious blaze of patriotism. Pittsburgh looks more like slag than good wartime metal...
...persisted, hoping for the dreams of which he had read. These came eventually and one of them, which recurred over some weeks, seemed to him to contain the key to the secret of the universe. With an enormous effort he managed one night to write the secret down. The denouement, he says, was disappointing, for on the following morning he read 'The banana is great, but the skin is greater...
Suddenly Emily's little world is tumbling about her ears: for Harry and her madcap sister Janice are in love. Emily's talent for self-deceit teases off the denouement to a point where New Year bells are ringing, a strike boils over, a greathearted young organizer is killed by his own men, and Emily learns not only to hear again but to realize that she has been trying to shackle an unwilling fiancé with her deafness...
...casualness to his painful suspense. It leads the hero to the palatial Nevada ranch of the master saboteur (Otto Kruger), into the hands of the police, out of them to an abandoned desert mining town loaded with paraphernalia to blow up Boulder Dam, on to Manhattan and an ironic denouement. The Girl (Priscilla Lane), of course, is picked up en route...