Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kerouac has taken the slightly less than original idea that life is like a road and given it an indisputably original twist by using a U. S. road map for most of the plot, and a Mexican map for the rest of it. Everything happens while the characters are physically on the move and nothing every happens when they stop. Outside of pure motion, there is no development of anything. Whenever some danger of a little drama through which personal relationships or just plain personalities might be explored develops, Kerouac drops the situation...
...conference in which the Middle East would figure heavily (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Bristled Radio Moscow: "If Eisenhower and Macmillan really want to bring the Middle East back to normal, why don't they invite other countries? Mr. Macmillan's meeting with the President hints at a separate plot by one group of powers against others−in particular, the Soviet Union...
...jobs as surveying "The Total Headwear Requirements of Bombed-Out Persons." Convinced after Stalingrad that Hitler must lose, Erhard drafted weighty studies of postwar economic prospects. One such report fell into the hands of Karl Goerdeler, the Leipzig mayor who was scheduled to take over the government if the plot to assassinate Hitler had succeeded in July 1944. Goerdeler's judgment: "The man must become minister...
...good guy" roles, Peter Lorre plays a Dutch college professor and novelist who hears of the legendary Dimitrios Makropoulos in Istanbul, and begins a search for biographical material which leads him across tense, 1938 Europe to Paris and a meeting with the ruthless spy. The fabulous, impossible plot unwinds in smokey cabarets in Athens, on the slick, rain-shiny streets of some hiding city, and on trains rattling through electric nights towards Paris...
...story, but it might well be used as an example of what a good motion picture should be. With restraint and intelligence and great skill, the makers of this film lay bare the relationship between three people: a successful Hollywood producer, his wife, and his teen-age son. The plot focuses on the boy, who gets into trouble with the police by--justifiably--hitting a movie theatre manager. But this is not, and does not pretend to be, another of those romanticised pseudo-Freudian essays on the causes of juvenile delinquency. It is a story of people who are sane...