Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...supports for burley were left at 90% of parity. To hold production down, acreage had to be cut and cut. By last year more than 60% of the burley tobacco farms in the U.S. were down to the minimum allowed by the law, one-half of one acre, a plot so small that it can hardly be farmed efficiently. Assistant U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz has a label for the process: "rationing poverty...
...about a hairy Havana high school senior who doesn't fit into the group, goes to bed with a prostitute, and finds that the socially acceptable fairy queen of the high school is neither off-beat nor a prostitute. The author, Robert Grindell, is another smooth writer, but his plot lacks both unity and message. He handles sex well, but his characters are not up to the experience, shadowy sketches whom he seems only to have met, never to have known. The hero's hairiness is, like much of the characterization, inadequate. Yet where characterization is needed, Grindell writes...
...Swan is a quiet movie abut love, set in a country palace of Hungary in the early part of the century. It has three attractions: Grace Kelly, Alec Gunniess, and a new twist on the old triangular plot...
...plot is bad, and getting worse, until at the end princess Kelly rejects her charming tutor in favor of the icy price Ginness. As a result of this anti-democratic twist, and the amazingly unholly-wood delicacy of the acting the movie becomes an adequate vehicle for the leading players...
...acting being as good as it is and the plot as bad as it is, the overall effect is an aristocratic grace of considerable charm, if you don't go expecting too much...