Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perceptions, nagging self-doubts dangle at the end of each memoir. But instead of developing their restive psyches, Prose disappointingly cuts the players short. Armanda the dwarf, for example, acknowledges the tension that arises from Flaminio's perfect typecasting, from his refusal to recognize her private soul. But the plot does not allow time for her to develop potential feelings of self-worth that can replace an identity culled from the glory of the stage. Instead, her memoir trails off in confusion, with a lame admission to Flamino that "I myself was never quite sure just when we were acting...
Gatsby presents a different problem. The valuable 20s ambience is there to be tapped, but in practical adaptation terms, the bare bones of the book's plot .are slender. It concerns the tragedy that follows when Jay Gatsby, a mysterious bootlegger, tries to use his money to revive a wartime romance with the rich, spoiled Daisy, who has since married even richer. Their crossed purposes are refracted in the lives of those near them: Daisy's philandering husband Tom, his mistress and her husband. At the end Tom and Daisy retreat into their "vast carelessness"; the others...
Scattered along the bends and twists of this satire-of-a-plot are cameo appearances and sight gags that somehow work. Alex Karras, the ox-like former tackle of the Detroit Lions, plays Mongo, a villain who storms into Rock Ridge and knocks out a horse with a punch in the mouth. Madeline Kahn, the nebbish circus dancer in Paper Moon, is a saloon singer who wails about her sexual fatigue in a clever ditty called "I'm Tired" (words and music, of course, by Mel Brooks...
...more neuroses and have a little more money than most people, but people who basically are not all that interesting. But each has an indentity, Auchincloss has not merely populated his novel with stock figures. Auchincloss is a craftsman no character's viewpoint is mangled or confused. The plot is very episodic, most of which tie together, and the writing carries the book right along, although it is sometimes cliched, sometimes bad and never enthralling. There's not much you can say about a sentence like: "And that little Pauline, swinging her hips, has more to say about that than...
...long-awaited, judiciously worded indictment sketched, in devastating detail, the cover-up plot that was hatched in the White House and in the Committee for the Re-Election of the President. The cover-up began almost the moment that five lowly burglars were arrested in the Watergate complex on June 17, 1972. The indictment attacks nearly all of the previous Watergate defenses put up by the men closest to Nixon. According to the grand jury, these aides tried to use the FBI and CIA to conceal the Watergate crime, not to protect national security. They arranged for payments of large...