Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...play, as it emerged, is not skilfully managed. Most of the plot is crammed into the first act, yet there is unnecessary repetition. Here too characters inform others of things already known to the hearers, while nobody ever tells anyone else--or us--why the animosity developed between the evil older brother Oliver and the good younger brother Orlando...
...would be expected, underneath the icy exterior Mr. Day is all honeyed sentimentality. His unsuccessful struggles to maintain appearances while wife and children expertly plot to get just what they want are the bases of humor here. There is no strong plot line; rather the play is a series of interlocking episodes that for the contemporary audience will bear a strong resemblance to situation comedies...
Infamous Atrocities. "The German" was Joachim Peiper. He had bought a plot of land in Traves twelve years ago and eventually began spending most of his time there. But his plump wife did the shopping, and townspeople rarely saw or even thought about Peiper himself. Then, not long ago, Peiper, 61, made an application for a permanent-residence permit. A check of his background revealed that he had not only been an adjutant to SS Chief Heinrich Himmler but was the notorious commander of Combat Group Peiper, which had killed at least 350 American prisoners and Belgian civilians during...
...wall. On another, he sees people standing still, staring at him for hours from the toilet facilities across the courtyard. Paranoia increases, reality slips away. Trelkovsky starts painting his nails, buys a wig wears a dress of his predecessor that he finds hanging in the closet. He suspects a plot and expects violence...
...prose crackles with innuendo as the plot quickly becomes as complicated as Edward's mind-and as haunted by ghosts and obsessions. British Author Derek Marlowe, best known for A Dandy in Aspic, pits Lytton's prim England against sensual Haiti, Catholicism against voodooism, the terrors of a feverish imagination against the banality of a tourist's experience. What starts out as a thin, sinister tale ends as a psychological chiller finely wrought for any season...