Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Liberally spiced with song-and-dance routines, the plot revolves around the story of a fan of the National Pastime who sells his soul to the devil for the chance of leading his team to a pennant victory over the Yankees. Improbable as the plot may sound, especially the part about the Yankees' losing the pennant, it does provide an interesting background for the music...
...plot, with a little rearrangement, might easily serve for an Italian opera of the verismo school. It resolves around a second-rate traveling strong man and his strange, dull-witted assistant and concubine. A tightrope walker laughs at the strong man and is kind to his slave, and the strong man kills him. In the end the girl dies, and the strong man is left groveling in remorse on a deserted beach reminiscent of the one where he found...
Died. The Rt. Rev. George Kennedy Allen Bell, 75. Anglican Bishop of Chichester from 1929 until his retirement in January, vigorous anti-Nazi who sharply deplored British saturation bombing of German cities, once (1942) interceded unsuccessfully for a group of German conspirators who wanted British Government acquiescence in a plot to kill Hitler, and was a stern advocate of nuclear disarmament; in Canterbury, England...
...somewhat) serious comedy, Patate's ailments are more complicated. That closely plotted plot deals with two men whose relationship bears many points of resemblance to that subsisting between Gladstone Gander and Donald Duck. Donald is the hero of the play the "patate" (helpfully defined in the program as "schmoe; patsy; fall guy.") It turns out, however, that his primary concern for several decades has been to nourish vengeful, bitter (and, admittedly, not unjustified) hatreds against his rich "friend," meanwhile nourishing himself by borrowing the friend's money. The patate is presented as a sweet guy, but in spite...
...satyrs has been seen before in Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One and in the misanthropic novels of Nathanael West. Southern hits more gently than Waugh or West, and is not so accomplished a writer. Though he is strikingly inventive in short scenes, he seems unable to plot beyond a dozen pages. Like the old two-reelers, Flash and Filigree lacks weight and discipline, but it also has an unfailing sense of the ridiculous, heightened by deadpan delivery...