Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lived at Vicos three years ago, Manuel Cruz, a lean-faced man of 40, was typical. Daylight, for him, meant only work; he had a mild form of tuberculosis, brought up an illiterate son, drank cheap rum at funerals. For the right to keep his ancestral four-acre subsistence plot, he toiled three days a week in the fields of the patron. His superstitious technique for growing his family's food, potatoes, was to "talk to the land...
...brisk show, but the musical is just as sadly deficient in these departments as in all the others. Peter Gennaro's choreography seems to have been inspired by one of Ed Sullivan's worst variety programs. His vaudeville approach is particularly apparent in the faulty integration of dances and plot, which sometimes raises the faint suspicion that the dancers got lost in the wrong...
...German movie companies announced that they will produce films about the unsuccessful July 20, 1944 plot against Hitler. German producers in the last two years have turned out half a dozen strongly anti-war films. Packed movie houses indicate that German audiences enjoy the self-examination...
...plot of "Bizarre, Bizarre" is built around a noted mystery-writer, who admits that he has no imagination, but writes for the sake of his pretentious wife. Just when the two most fear involvement in social disgrace and disinheritance (the bane of the English middle class), they become entangled with William Kramps, the Ripper and butcher of butchers. At this point, the rich aunt, who has a secretary-companion named Victory, appears on the scene, naturally...
...Gwirtzman's report on Bill Buckley's lecture. Mr. Gwirtzman tried his best to discredit the seriousness of Mr. Buckley's intent by inflating a few casual remarks about who would or would not shake hands with whom to the status of a main character in the plot. Did Mr. Gwirtzman attempt to convey any of Mr. Buckley's more serious points to his CRIMSON audience? Did Mr. Gwirtzman himself risk an exchange of ideas with Mr. Buckley during the hour-long question-answer period provided at the end of the lecture? He apparently feels safer in mouthing his opinions...