Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Great stories never die. They get reborn on stage. Part of Shakespeare's genius, as any good reader of the "Sources" section of Signet editions knows, was to find the dramatic in someone else's plot. An academician will tell you there is universal meaning and appeal in great works of art. As if to test that definition, playwrights have frequently adapted recongnized greats to new settings and genres. This spring Harvard dramatics offers all kinds of adaptations: Antigone is transported to a troubled Latin American nation and "Wherefore art thou" is put to music. Adaptations are a recognized...
...notion that her dead mother is a wicked puppet queen. Her mother's crime? Teaching Andrea that everything she does must be aimed at attracting men. "What the mother teaches the child is almost like the normal belief system many women are taught," observes Blakely. "The plot is something women will connect...
...tradition in private-eye melodramas, the enormously complicated plot is merely a convention permitting the hero to come into contact with large numbers of colorful characters, here including a very shifty informer and a bodyguard who thinks he's tough until he runs into Wells, who is not quite as fragile as he looks...
This is all good fun, with plenty of smart cross talk and enough twists in the plot and situations to occupy even those unafflicted with nostalgia. What lifts the movie out of the curiosity category, however, is the performances of Carney and Tomlin...
Throughout the film, the sense persists that May lost track of what she had wanted to do. Small points and moments are worried past endurance, while the main plot wanders. Watching the pic ture is an unsettling and eventually op pressive experience, like observing a person having a nervous breakdown...