Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Artistic rebels in a specific way. Rather than altering the pictorial elements of their work, they added expressive intensity to their vision. The plot, the actors, and the props of the drama in their pictures do not represent the most significant aspects of their artistic progress. Many of the themes and subjects they used were Romantic holdovers. Their achievement was rather that they changed the dramatic narrative of art from a third-person to a first-person account; that they made the plastic means convey not only the emotions of the characters within the picture, but the emotions...
...explanation is simple: as a courtesy to travelers to Cuba, the U.S. has lowered the embargo a tiny notch. Tourists may bring back up to $100 worth of merchandise, but otherwise, all Cuban goods are contraband in the U.S. Aha, a traveler might wonder: a plot to protect U.S. cigar makers? Probably not. "Cuban tobacco would be a stimulus to American cigars," insists Carl J. Carlson, executive director of the Cigar Association of America. Since the embargo began, total cigar sales in the U.S. have receded from more than 6 billion a year to just 5.3 billion...
...lovers cavorting outside his bedroom window one day and summarily orders Oliver off the premises. The boy fears that he will never see Molly again. He goes berserk, picks up a pair of garden shears and plunges them repeatedly into the old man's stomach. After that, the plot takes on the melodramatic twists of a detective thriller...
Both of these films are about childhood and both of them are by the man who is, next to Buñuel, the most distinguished Spanish director. But that is where their similarity ends. Cria! is a dark and melodramatic comedy, highly original in plot, about how a child misperceives her actions and their consequences in the adult world. Cousin Angelica, though more stylistically unconventional, is a rather ordinary story about an adult attempting to refine and correct the memories of childhood. Cria! is an almost entirely successful work, while the other, earlier film must be regarded as an honorable...
...legendary West - but it is no horse, only modern horse power gone loco. Driverless, with a diabolical will of its own, it invades a Utah town and mows down a bicycling couple, the sheriff and a passel of deputies and a pert young teacher. Among the other victims: plot, dialogue and characterization. Deputy Sheriff James Brolin leads the counterattack, but it is an unequal contest: the car steals all the scenes. The ancient nightmare of machines turning against their masters has in recent years become something of a staple of made-for-TV movies. This model offers nothing...