Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movie, it would make a tidy triple bill with the currently showing Juggernaut and The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. But for the residents of the Pacific Northwest, whose electricity and water supplies have been threatened since late September by a man calling himself J. Hawker, the plot was real and all too earnest (TIME, Nov. 4). The ordeal finally ended last week when David W. Heesch, 34, of Beaver Creek, Ore., admitted responsibility for a bizarre extortion scheme involving the bombing of eleven electrical transmission towers of the Bonneville Power Administration, a threat to set a fire...
...century verismo works, Jenufa is an elusive opera in some ways. The setting is a Moravian village, and the composer knew its inhabitants with detachment and compassion. He creates no heroes, but a world of people working, flirting, taking naps, worrying about saving face or avoiding the draft. The plot, however, concerns deadly primal emotions: love, jealousy and ambition. Jenufa is pregnant by števa, a wastrel who chases every girl in town. Jenufa still hopes to catch him, but her world is invisibly rimmed by two figures far more powerful than she and her faithless swain...
...plot? Does one tattle on Sherlock Holmes? No. But yes, there is a beauteous lady in distress, purloined papers, low, seedy minicriminals, velvety London fogs, the claustrophobic peril of a sealed gas chamber and Holmes' agile Houdini-like escape from it. Over everything lurks the brooding presence of Moriarty, played by Philip Locke like a Mephistophelean raven of evil...
Love for Love displays all these characteristics, and it is difficult to imagine a more delightful revival than that mounted by the New Phoenix Repertory Company. Harold Prince has directed it with a marvelously light touch, and the cast bestows elegance on the incessant sexual innuendo. To unravel the plot would be as tricky as negotiating the Minotaur's labyrinth, but it remains understandable throughout the evening...
...more or less), perversely left by a crotchety octogenarian to the ne'er-do-well son of his nurse-secretary-companion Julian Underwood. The dead man's daughter, Jenny Rastall, contests the will. Like a La Ronde involving money instead of sex, Snow's plot circles in an ever widening spiral until the whole of '70s English society seems ensnarled in the litigation...