Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is very little plot. The film evolves through a series of incidents about a group of children in the French town of Theirs. Two boys sneak into a movie theater. A couple of brothers relieve a pal of his haircut money by tending to the tonsorial chores themselves. A little girl named Sylvie, sly and lovely, refuses to dine out with her parents, then organizes an intricate foodlift for herself among concerned neighbors...
...fact of technological life has stirred dire warnings that sophisticated terrorist groups might build such bombs and use them to blackmail the world -a kind of ultimate crime. While the prospect causes a great deal of official worry, it also provides almost any competent thriller writer with a readymade plot that has everything: timeliness, tremendous stakes and, above all, the appalling specter of a mushroom cloud billowing over a peaceful land...
...most cleverly wrapped political package since Chinatown. And then all of a sudden whap!--it's the dumbest one since The Day the Earth Stood Still. An article in last Thursday's Times about the Rugoft theater chain in New York congratulated the owners for handing out a plot booklet explanation with the price of admision; I wish they'd thought of that at the Maplewood Theater. If I had only known what the hell was going on in the last hour I wouldn't have had to ask: Why does Buck Henry's hair turn white in the space...
Young Janine Hansen of Nevada decries ERA as a plot to destroy the family. Her family is a significant one at this convention--they make up five of the nine members of the Nevada delegation. Soon, it becomes apparent that this is representative of much of the convention--a gathering of family and friends active in this sort of thing since the Wallace crusade of 1968 and resentful of highbrow outsiders from the aborted Reagan campaign...
...requests for sequel rights. Said he: "What Margaret was saying in her book, as I see it, was that many times a woman has a good man and doesn't know it until it's too late." Getting them together again, he felt, would destroy a great plot-as well as undermine a sound moral. Now, at 80, Atlanta Attorney Mitchell, a father of two sons, has had a change of heart. Probably impressed by the phenomenal success of Jaws, he approached its co-producers, Zanuck and Brown, who promptly snapped up his offer. "I figured I might...