Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...association, the medical association." At first they held a long "civic dialogue" with Batista, aimed at persuading him to hold a fair election. That failed. "Then we tried military action, thinking that a few key leaders here and there would do the trick." Batista got wind of this plot, led by Lieut. Colonel Ramón Barquin, and squashed it handily (TIME, April...
Gallico's plot is intricate, skillful, absurd. The vet, a big red-bearded man, really hates other people's pets because his wife has died. His little daughter dotes on pets but specially on Thomasina. Coldly the vet orders aged pets chloroformed, but away in the glens there lives a mad witch who has a silver "Bell of Mercy'' hung on a great oak tree. When small boys ring the bell and bring frogs with broken legs to her door she restores them to health. Comes the day when the hardhearted vet orders Thomasina...
Although the plot still contains much intensity, the point behind it all, particularly for an American audience, retains mostly only an academic importance. Furthermore, the construction of the play--particularly near the end--sags alarmingly, and some of its long speeches are made up of a questionable kind of rhetoric...
...days up to and after Jay's death in an automobile accident. By sensitively showing the impact of the death on each person, Agee created a novel full of intensely real emotion. The book is a truly poetic work with unity and power that came from a simple, dramatic plot developed through a musically subtle evolution of tone...
...plot is rather frail as to be expected in light farce, but such is its success that one never notices. The irrepressible Fernandel plays a harrassed husband who feels that his real calling is women's fashions. One of his extra-curricular conquests leaves him the controlling interest in a fashion house that is on the skids, and amidst great swish and swirl our hero conquers the world of fashion. And with the usual amorous byplay, all comes out well...