Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...following days, and there were reports-probably unfounded-that the Basques were receiving advice and training from the Irish Republican Army. Political observers believed that the ETA was responsible for Carrero Blanco's death; no other group, they said, had the ability to execute such an intricate plot...
...lacks the elements that could have given it true drive: a sense of an urban underworld, or of the Depression that sucked so many people into it; an understanding of the con man's pathology that goes beyond surface style and patter; a story that depends not on plot twists but on characters. The movie ends up with a lot of expensive sets and a screenful of blue eyes...
...film, little of this remains. Bits of themes, shreds of ideas float on the surface of the plot like so much plankton...
...team, have gone against the usual practice of scholars and compilers: they have included "only the sort of information that we can imagine being of use or entertainment to someone." The book contains sketches of Dickens' family, friends and associates; a topography of his writings and life; and plot summaries of all his works...
Readers may be disappointed by the dryness of the Hardwicks' plot summaries, or the emphasis on purely physical description in their character sketches (not a word about Micavvber's improvidence). But there is rich recompense in the book's final section-248 pages of copious quotations from Dickens himself. These serve the true purpose of such a reference work: to remind the reader that the original is irreplaceable...