Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gagreeing to his demand that election be held in June, 1954 for a 250-member assembly with legislative powers. In March, after Nasser had weeded the elections. On November 14, 1954, Naguib--by then a more figurehead--was quietly deposed by Nasser, after being implicated in a Moslem Brotherhood plot to kill Nasser; and many leaders of the Brotherhood joined leaders of the Walf in jail...
...plot hops from peak to peak of interest with a goatish nimbleness. Tyrone Power, a Boer bushfighter, visits Ireland to buy horseflesh and meets Susan Hayward, who follows him to Africa. When they meet again in the big attack-in which not a hair of her pretty red head is ruffled-Ty says exactly the right thing: "You . . . here in Africa fighting Zulus ... I can hardly believe...
Himself a longtime newsman (Philadelphia Record, New York Post), Author Grafton has found no startling truths about big crime-his plot in the end becomes downright hokum-but he offers many fascinating insights: how it feels before a holdup, the psychology of crap shooting, the relaxed domesticity enjoyed by the off-duty criminal. He can also be quietly amusing, as when he compares a detective's carefully indirect questions about a robbery ("I hear some pals stopped in to see you last night") to a modern poet who must find "some oblique and more beautiful way of indicating what...
...theatre manger hesitated. "Well," he said, "I'll tell you. The show's got no plot. It's no Rodgers and Hammerstein deal, with fancy dream sequences and integrated songs. But it's got girls. It's full of girls. I don't think I've ever seen so many girls in one chorus line before. It's no piece of art, but it's a businessman's night out. They don't mind paying the price because they're seeing talent. Real talent...
...screen as in the novel by Evan Hunter, Blackboard Jungle suffers seriously from the vices of professional indignation, special pleading and general rostrumism. Sometimes it seems to raise false eyebrows and to grit false teeth. The resolution of the plot is so facile as to appear insincere. But the picture also has the virtues of its vices: social conscience, honest anger and a narrow but vital kindliness...