Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leap from Lincoln's box to the stage of Ford's Theater, and, as the familiar story goes, he gave Mudd a fictitious name and kept his face hidden behind a muffler and false beard. Still, Mudd was convicted as a conspirator in the assassination plot and sentenced to life imprisonment. Though he was pardoned in 1869 by President Andrew Johnson, the record of his conviction remained on the books at the time of his death in 1883. It still does...
Front Row Seat. Sears made the whole Vesco affair sound like the everyday fraternizing of friends in high places rather than a plot to trade political influence for a campaign contribution. When Sears said he had introduced Vesco to his friend Mitchell on March 12, 1971, the defense pointed out that the date was 13 months before the financier made his gift and six days before the SEC even began looking into Vesco's mutual-fund operations overseas...
...that was adapted into a movie that was redecorated as a Broadway musical. Now, in a singularly costly act of taxidermy ($300,000 for the star's wardrobe alone), Mame has been mounted once again, this time as a transcription of the musical. Through its various incarnations, the plot details of Mame must be well enough known for most members of the audience to recite them in their sleep. Before the movie is too far along, many may be doing just that...
...basically simple," says Reiche, who was trained in mathematics at Hamburg University. First, she explains, the artists apparently worked out their designs in advance on small 6-ft. by 6-ft. plots still visible near many of the larger figures. On these dirt sketch pads, she says, they could break down each drawing into its component parts. Straight lines could be drawn by stretching a rope between two stakes. Curves represented more of a challenge. The ancient draftsmen apparently dealt with it by breaking each curve into smaller, linked arcs. Recognizing that the arcs represented sections of the circumferences...
...PROSE had let individual voices emerge and develop organically, subtly weaving a plot around their self-conscious lives, they would have shown her that indeed the quality of story they lived affects and transforms human life, and that individuality can't be pressed into one single mold. If allowed full rein, her own characters would not proceed unchanged through story after inset story. A talent for vivid characterization to her credit, Prose should shake loose from the confines of this genre and stamp her own individual form on her writing. She should carve the story lines out of the characters...