Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ORIGINAL PERICLES is a bad play. It is the syrupy-sweet story of "the paynfull adventures of a Gentleman of Tyre" only scarcely joined together in a scattered plot. The play has been attributed to a handful of people and Shakespeare is said to have written very little of it, so there is no sacrilege in the efforts of Randy Echols to rewrite and improve. The production at the Loeb Ex makes a success out of the doctored script with several Leob veterans who have coordinated their schedules to produce a cast of rare balance...
...skillfully tightened plot and imaginative details of direction make the pasteboard figures of the original Pericles into fuller, livelier characters. Pericles becomes almost a spoof as a paragon of nobility, rising early to practice his jousting while the other revelers of the night before stagger on stage with crushing hangovers. Dionyza's jealousy becomes a real facet of personality in the slinky character onstage, while in the original it is an awkward device to advance the plot. Sections of the new play are quite comic, but the heroes are never ludicrous. This is a difficult task for any company...
Familiar faces in new situations, familiar situations with new faces and a few far-out fancies worked around the standard detection plot. So it goes with this season's new recruits in TV's crime-fighting force...
...center's assistant director, A.J. Meyer, also concedes Harvard's relatively Arabless state and notes that "all our students have the impression that some kind of plot is working against their point of view." The loudest complaints are about the lack of courses in modern, colloquial Arabic, contemporary politics and economics. At the University of Michigan center, less than a dozen of 180 courses touch on contemporary conditions in any way. According to Maan Z. Medina, a Syrian professor of Arabic studies at Columbia, "there is no single study of Arab nationalism here. Arabic literature as such, especially...
...values at ?6. His accounts soon grow more complicated, and Malry's figures mount accordingly. To help make up for "socialism not being given a chance" (debit: ?311,398), he dumps cyanide into a local reservoir, killing 20,000 Londoners (credit: ?26,622.7). As the plot progresses, Christie's ledgers carry forward an ever larger debt that society owes...