Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inexplicable inability to gain steady employment, his domestic foibles and, finally, out of his wife's simultaneous bouts with childbirth and coma. These developments are so poorly conceived that Adrian's brother (a newly slim Burt Young) must dart in and out of scenes to deliver plot information. Once Rocky starts to train in earnest, the film becomes less a sequel than a prosaic remake. "For a 45-minute fight, you got to train 45,000 minutes," barks Trainer Burgess Meredith. He isn't kidding...
...difficult to distinguish among them because every set in the film, indoors and out, is flooded with mist. The sound track is inundated with John Barry's crashing score, next to which Michel Legrand's florid music for Summer of '42 sounds like Hindemith. Yet the plot does somehow manage to emerge. About halfway into Hanover Street, both of the heroine's men end up on the same-secret intelligence mission behind enemy lines in France. Things get tense. Who will live and who will die? Who will run across a crowded hospital ward to embrace...
...architecture of New York functions as an "emotional ingredient" of the photographed event. Supported by characteristic musical compositions (of which Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" is the most prominent), these inserts serve as auditory-visual transitions which intensify the editing pace of the film and connect the plot junctures...
...plot is not complex. A Hollywoodish U.S. conglomerate boss bribes President Frankling with a $250,000 campaign donation to get a White House meeting at which he warns that a leftist government in Uruguay is about to expropriate his assets there. He then suggests that the CIA could stop it. White House Aide Robin Warren is ordered by the President to see what the CIA can do. It, of course, suggests a coup. Frankling gets drunk on his yacht and tells Warren to give the CIA a green light. Alas, the Uruguayan junta learns of the caper. In the international...
...were marked by a macabre irony. His last purge was to have been a mammoth pogrom. The pretext was the spurious charge that the Kremlin doctors, most of them Jews, were poisoning political luminaries in their care. In his terminal paranoia, Stalin came to believe in the plot and suspected that his personal physician was a British agent. As blood vessels began to burst inside his own brain, plunging him into a prolonged agony, the dictator would not let any doctor near him on his deathbed...