Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plot of the novel, then, merely concerns some bubbles which pop. Nor has the story itself any "cosmic" significance, unless as a running commentary upon everyday America. And even these comments figure in jokes along the way rather than in any destined conclusion to the book. The real heart of The Bubble Makers is not its subject matter but its style...
...much more than just a string of jokes. Resigned to the impossibility of reaching Bhutan, Charlie valiantly battles a Mississippi flood. Although this episode is almost a separate story in itself, Goodman's skill in developing the ludicrous drama of the situation compensates for any looseness in the plot. One realizes that the role of "flood-control expert" is for Charlie a substitute Bhutan. After working himself to the point of collapse on a levee, and nearly drowning in the process, he cheerfully announces: "It was the best time I've ever had." An element of charm here is undeniable...
...seized from private libraries as possible evidence: Negley Parson's The Way of a Transgressor; Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment), they were able to seize the records of some 50 opposition organizations and groups, some of which are proCommunist. For all the police fanfare, no big Communist plot to overthrow the government was revealed. Some of the evidence did show, however, that many nonwhites, deprived of moderate leadership by constant government harassment and restrictive laws, were turning more and more to extremism. At the Indian Congress headquarters in the Transvaal, a huge portrait of Red China...
...Desperate Hours, Director Wyler has subordinated his actors with unusual severity to the pace of the plot, and most of them have taken to the rein like the thoroughbreds they are. Bogart gives a piteously horrible impression of the essential criminal, the man who has to take because he is too weak to give. And Richard Ever, as the boy, is a regular little darb. Fredric March, by the dignity of his performance, lends to the father's role a sense of legendary size that reminds a moviegoer-in a picture that might otherwise have had high muzzle velocity...
...lots of corn . . . Anybody would feel happy in such a factory. And there are other things: there's Hamlet." It was "the other things" represented by Hamlet-a monarcho-fascist intellectual degenerate if ever there was one-that got Ehrenburg into all his trouble. The Thaw's plot may be summarized as the ups and downs of a pack of dull-spirited clods on the greasy pole of Soviet respectability. Will Jurayliov with his uncultured principles continue as factory manager? Will Artist Volodya ever paint anything as good as his big picture of "The Feast at the Collective...