Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...optical parts are war-surplus material and can be obtained from supply houses. Special teams equipped with these monoculars will watch for the satellite from locations scattered across the country, and report bach to Smithsonian headquarters in Cambridge when they spy it. Computing machines will use these findings to plot the sphere's orbit around the earth...
...Chamoun's refusal to break relations with Britain and France. The army and police occupied key points in the capital, arrested 200, reportedly found dynamite in the Egyptian commercial attaché's car, and charged that the Egyptian assistant military attaché had been involved in a plot against President Chamoun. A new pro-American government was formed under Sami el Solh. His Foreign Minister was a familiar and friendly face, Charles ("the good") Malik...
...plot of Ernani, based on a Victor Hugo play, resembles a travesty of all grand-opera plots. The main motivation seems to be the handsome Bandit Ernani's death wish. Before he finally kills himself in Act IV, he gets into all sorts of entanglements with the King of Spain, an old grandee, and the woman who is desired by all of them. Amidst a welter of prayers, supplications, pageants and credos, nothing occurs resembling a human relationship. Similarly, the score, composed when Verdi was 30, sounds like a not very funny satire of Verdian music that put listeners...
Madness gallops in their family: of their three nephews, Teddy is convinced he is Theodore Roosevelt, Jonathan is a psychopathic slaughterer, and Mortimer is a drama critic. The plot is a bit mad, and is far too intricately folded to describe. And it never ends. As the final curtain falls, a guest is raising his glass. "Elderberry wine is rare nowadays--I thought I'd had my last glass." "No," replies Aunt Martha, "Here...
Although the twisting plot and sharp lines are constantly amusing, the acting is not. Gertrude Berg, as Abby Brewster, has the juiciest role, but she is no more than adequate. As Molly Goldberg she was ideal, and her summer stock performance of the Josephine Hull role in Solid Gold Cadillac was loudly praised; in her present fuller, more enchanting Hull role she proves mostly that she just is not Josephine Hull. Instead of being a lovable white-haired darling of great sweetness, charm, and madness, she is usually only a housewife...