Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FIRST ACT has several big strikes against it. The main one is the book, which is basically a stinker. It's not the plot, which, as is usual with a Hasty Pudding Show, is as easy to track as a follow-the-fettucini puzzle, not is it the cast of characters whose names are, as usual in a Pudding Show, very funny: Juana deBoise, Ophelia Heartbeat, Manual Dexterite, Sonya Vabitzsche, Della Tory. It's just that the thousands of little jokes--the troops of mice that are expected to drag the Pudding's great gilded carriage--are less tonight...
Mead had a slightly tougher time of it at number five, but the plot's outcome was the same. Mead dropped two close opening games to Eli Andy Mathieson, 14-16, 17-18, but he came back to win the last three games--15-6, 15-4, 15-3--and the match...
EMPTY. The word is printed on publicity posters and hung on bulletin boards. It advertises the current Loeb Ex production of Samuel Beckett's two plays Play and Come and Go. White and uncluttered, the poster seems to defy what an advertisement should be. It suggests nothing of the plot, and offers no commonplace images, not even a prominent name. Just "Empty" and small print. But the poster is appropriate. It informs, Even though his first play was produced 24 years ago, Samuel Beckett's works still seem jarring and bizarre. And no wonder. Although his works may be recognized...
When Beckett presents a comedy of manners, as in Come and Go, he includes three women, gossip, hypocrisy, but no drawing room, and no second or third act. Although the play does have plot reversals, they are less reminiscent of the action in School for Scandal than of the printouts of a computer randomly permutating a basic word pattern. In PlayBeckett gives us the tried but true triangle of husband, wife and mistress and hints of insanity, murder and rape. But the characters are dead in this chamber piece; we see only their heads atop individual funeral urns. The theme...
...apartment with Hall as hostage, Kiritsis warned the police that the place was booby-trapped with dynamite. Then came his demands. From Meridian, he wanted immediate cancellation of a $130,000 mortgage that he had taken out months before in the hope of developing a 17-acre plot in Indianapolis into a shopping center. The loan was due on March 1, but the development was a failure. The reason, according to Kiritsis: Meridian had steered potential tenants away from his project for the purpose of forcing him into bankruptcy and foreclosing on his land. "These people betrayed me," he told...