Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...desolate plot of weeds was once the Saturn I complex, the scene of the space program's worst disaster: a flash fire that on Jan. 27, 1967, cost the lives of Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee, and came very close to fatally dampening national enthusiasm for space flight as well. Recently, launch towers and other equipment at the complex that cost $68 million were sold as scrap...
...sounds familiar enough-like the plot of an old Bette Davis movie cap-sulized in a late-show listing. But Mom in this case is played by gum-snapping Goldie Hawn, and there is nothing classy about the way she expresses her grief or the methods she is willing to employ to pry Baby Langston out of the foster home in which he has been placed...
...taken a sheet of paper with printed margins and written at the top, in blue ink, the title Absalom, Absalom!. He underlined it twice and dated the sheet in the upper left hand corner." He then describes two false starts set at Harvard. So far, very interesting. After a plot analysis of the first chapter, Blotner breaks to tell us about a three-hour flying practice in Memphis. Then he returns to the book to analyze chapter two, switches back to the real world for a discussion of Oxford politics and two hours of flying, then back to the typing...
...CRITIC has to be a bit wary of these Tom Stoppard plays, since one of them puts a couple of critics right on stage and then draws them into the play. After that, some bad things--whose closer description might spoil Stoppard's beautifully elaborate plot--happen to them, so this critic at least is keeping one eye over his shoulder as he writes. I certainly have nothing against Tom Stoppards, who is the most original, witty and maybe even profound playwright to emerge in English for a decade. But I think he may have something against critics in general...
...Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964). Don Knotts is a wishy-washy bookkeeper who becomes a fish. This sounds dumb, but it isn't half bad. The animated scenes of Knotts as the fish are better than Disney, and the plot (the Navy tries to use him to bomb enemy subs but he has cold fins about it) is pretty daring for a kid's film. Ch. 56, 12 noon. Color, 2 hours...