Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blue-collar bus−one, NBC's Lotsa Luck, quite literally. The show stars Dom DeLuise as an ex-bus driver promoted to clerk in the lost-and-found department. (In its first episode last week, Lotsa Luck stretched Bunker bluntness into common vulgarity with a plot that revolved entirely around a purple-lidded, tangerine-colored toilet.) Just as DeLuise contends with his crotchety/lazy/dumb family relations, James Coco as CBS'S Calucci is plagued by his crotchety/lazy/dumb staff at the local unemployment department, and Norman Fell, on NBC'S Needles and Pins, suffers crotchety/lazy/ dumb family relations...
...scene in an amusement arcade. He goes into a "Make a Record of Your Voice" booth and speaks a message to send home, full of empty good spirits and a struggling, almost desperate optimism. It is a small moment of truth amid mostly synthetic sentiment and a drearily predictable plot...
Chief is structured, rather cleverly, as a send-up of John Frankenheimer's Seven Days in May (1964), in which a sometimes violent plot was enacted within hailing distance of the White House. Here, the President (Dan Resin) is turning the Secretary of Health's cherished VISTA camps into prisons for political dissenters. "Not concentration camps," the President hastens to reassure his Secretary (Richard B. Shull). "Detention camps−this is America...
Last of Sheila. Slick but interesting. A murder mystery on a yacht. Don't even try to figure out the plot, which is convoluted almost beyond the limits of credibility. Most of the fun comes from watching James Coburn, Richard Benjamin, Dyan Cannon, James Mason, and Raquel Welch play themselves, with plenty of witty Hollywood quips and elaborate sets. Paris. 1:45-9:45, every 2 hours...
...such errors need not be committed. We can examine the connections between Watergate and the rest of Nixonism. We can plot out the effects of Nixon's presidency on U.S. political development. If we do so, a pattern emerges...