Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Home Free's plot is aimless. The lack of focus--if intentional--may be an attempt to symbolize Gene's restless drifting, but again, it could have been handled more deftly. Wakefield is continuously showing him moving, from one university to another, one lover to the next, one town to the next. Everything moves but the plot--which is relentlessly stagnant. Everybody has a threshold of boredom. Home Free surpasses even the highest tolerance for sluggishness in fiction...
...uranium? And how did they get it? After several weeks of investigation by a team of correspondents, TIME has learned that the Scheersberg As voyage from Antwerp was part of a complex plot concocted by Israeli intelligence agents. Its purpose: to disguise a secret Israeli purchase of much-needed uranium for its French-built nuclear reactor at Dimona in the Negev Desert; an overt purchase might have pushed the Soviet Union into supplying nuclear arms to the Arab states. The Scheersberg A, which is still in service as a tramp steamer under the name Kerkyra, was secretly owned...
...flotsam and jetsam from the period when I was twelve years old," says Director George Lucas, 33. "All the books and films and comics that I liked when I was a child. The plot is simple -good against evil-and the film is designed to be all the fun things and fantasy things I remember. The word for this movie is fun." For once, a director is right about his own work. Star Wars has brought fun back to the movies and glowingly demonstrated they still can make 'em like they used...
...captain of her own freighter, she lives outside history - obeying only the tides, stars, wind, and her own biological urges. She is also rich, and her mon ey supports Matalax's revolutionary plot, a wild, complex scheme that includes recruiting look-alikes to replace Colonel Arruza...
...main lines of the plot have been retained, but they constitute what has become a standard trip down paranoia lane. Who are all these vaguely menacing character actors? What are their motives for knocking off a man we must assume is either a President or a presidential candidate...