Word: denoument
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...know that Harvard is facing a slight budget crunch, but things must be pretty bad if the dean of students is forced to make his business calls from a pay phone. In an anticlimactic denoument, The Crimson later learned that Epps had been courteous enough to return his calls from a conference he was attending at Tufts. The phones in the dean's office, we are assured, are working just fine...
...film's denoument concerns some rather well-paid if shady messengering for a sleazy drug dealer named Gypsy (Rudy Ramos). Too cowardly or wise to deliver his product himself, he recruits money-hungry young innocents from Quicksilver to do his dirty work for him. One delivery boy, Apache (David Harris), has already fallen prey to Gypsy's ugly side: having dared to take a cut of his action, Gypsy strikes back, hunting Apache down in his car in an inferior version of the chase scene from The French Connection...
...that sincerity is of course met by followers who cannot face the discipline required on the road to truth and beauty by way of pinball and multiple handicaps. The denoument is the most powerful moment of the show. The chorus finally breaks from its orderly line and rises to destroy Tommy, singing, "We're Not Going to Take It." And Westelman, alone, singing the most famous line of them all, "See me, feel me, touch me, heal me," gives the show its final, genuine power...
...only they happened to be a black and Puerto Rican, just as West Side Story had flushed Romeo and Juliet out of Manhattan slums a decade earlier. Shakespeare's influence barely surfaces until the end of West Side Story, when it takes the form of a tragic denoument that is a cloying mistake. But Guare and Shapiro's adaptation gamely borrows both language and plot from its original with no harm done...
...forego the man's traditional dowry payment to marry him. Ossman wants Bahar, not only for his own gratification but for work in his fields. Once Hassan is in jail, Ossman forces himself on Bahar. The film moves slowly towards the brothers' inevitable face-off and an abrupt, violent denoument...