Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...believe that Agent Thomas must be an imposter pretending to be Clown. He is persecuted by The Agency for being Clown. In scenes that strongly recall the Crucifixion and the Resurrection, Thomas is first brought to despair and then raised to ecstasy. Through a neat twist of his plot, Novelist Brebner turns the tables on The Agency and restores Thomas to his rightful place. The happy ending-inconceivable in Orwell's 1984 or Kafka's The Castle-is in happy accord with the love of man which shines through Brebner's artfully simple writing. To a world...
...plane was on the ground and the passengers drinking in the bar when the order should have arrived. But the French radio operator in Rabat simply neglected to send the message. The DC-3 took off again, bound for Algiers. Minister Lacoste had been let in on the plot and told there was still time to stop it. "No, go ahead," he said, and gave orders for troops and tanks to be sent to the airport...
...Michael Kanin script carelessly tosses away one of the play's best ideas. There are men in the picture. In the play, men never appeared; it was as if the world were one vast, closed powder room. And though the scriptwriters have kept the play's plain plot (gossip wrecks marriage, husband marries golddigger, wife gets him back), they have jazzed it up with plenty of new wisecracks-some of them acute, others merely cute...
From all currently available information it must be inferred that the British, French, and Israelis have perpetrated an incredible plot. For the moment, these facts are known...
...psychology and realistic theatre. A close reading of the script or a few minutes of the low quality LP record, however, will cast doubts on the dramatic worth of the broadcast. Corny lines, private jokes, impossible flashbacks, impossible occurrences, and hackneyed lines mar whatever dramatic value might underlie the plot. Yet the mediocrity and incredibility of the script makes the psychological aspects of the original version all the more interesting...