Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flushed Romeo and Juliet out of Manhattan slums a decade earlier. Shakespeare's influence barely surfaces until the end of West Side Story, when it takes the form of a tragic denoument that is a cloying mistake. But Guare and Shapiro's adaptation gamely borrows both language and plot from its original with no harm done...
...said his visit to China in 1942 convinced him the country was ripe for a Communist takeover although most Americans at the time thought of it as "a place where you could go on vacation," that "could only be taken away from the U.S. by a dastardly plot...
...Meggie's eight brothers either die or disappear into the woodwork. Women seem to live forever, while every hundred pages or so another man is burned alive or disemboweled by a wild boar or drowned or unsexed by gunshot wounds. None of this carnage is required by the plot. The males are punished because their punishment is what romantic fiction requires...
...years later he shipped the Bodleian some 17,000 volumes of chinoiserie; later he contributed 18 manuscripts that were blatant forgeries and promised other treasures that did not exist. During World War I, as a sub rosa operative, he embroiled high British officials and even the King in a plot to procure from neutral China at least 200,000 rifles. They never materialized. A few years later, he flimflammed an American firm that sought to print banknotes for the Chinese...
Offhand Humor. The plot is as authentic and insubstantial as a whiff of marijuana (Screenwriter Barren is an alumnus of the Boston Phoenix and the Real Paper). One of the reporters cashes in on his underground experiences by selling a book. A beginner tries to expose a local record bootlegger. Lovers climb in and out of various beds. The new publisher takes over; one staffer is fired; another quits. The paper goes...