Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...colonel and his men set merrily to work, all unaware that in building their bridge, they are also constructing a hideous paradox. Even as the British prisoners, with proper pride, are drawing plans for their structure, a British Commando unit is hatching a plot to blow it up. As the bridge mounts, so does the suspense. For every timber that slides into place, the raiders (William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Geoffrey Home) make another march to their goal. As in some awful myth, as in all human history, creation and destruction keep inexorable step. They collide in a conclusion that will...
...prime task of next week's summit conference is to overcome this unhappy blend of fear, cynicism and narrow self-interest and to give new vitality and strength to the NATO alliance. No one could plot this new course except statesmen and diplomats. But the man who knows most about the terrain ahead and who must lead NATO along the course the summiteers lay down is a lean, greying figure in U.S. Air Force blue. More than any statesman. General Lauris Norstad, Supreme Allied Commander Europe, knows and deals with the awkward big realities and the small difficulties...
...take over. And that is the clue to what George Balanchine has done by way of choreography. Unlike his previous "neoclassic" collaborations with Stravinsky (Apollo, Orpheus), this work is abstract dance: there are no costumes or scenery and the Greek title, Agon (contest), does not denote a conflict of plot but simply a sort of dancers' free...
...TOWN, by William Faulkner. The malignant, unsavory Snopeses taking over Yoknapatawpha County from the noble old families who once controlled it and gave it graciousness. Intricate and convoluted as the book is in plot and in sentence, Faulkner gives it the air of a sly village idiot's barbershop yarn...
...commended are the extraordinarily sensitive photography and direction, but one must take exception to the sirupy nature of the plot and the almost gutless nature of its presentation. The sharp differentiation between good and evil is of the native fairly tale type...