Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stroke. So the achievement in this book has nothing to do with the novel as a whole, Gravity's Rainbow self-contained and entire. The achievement lies in some things that happen to happen while the novel is going on: like Pynchon's mystical/political/scientific vision, or new ideas of plot and character, or the prose style--for example...
...optimism lies in the success of the young actor. This optimism extends hope to humanity, but the hope seems so facile as to be ludicrous. Lindsay Anderson said last month that he had no clear conception of exactly how the ending event grows out of the film's plot. But he said that, in his mind, the ending was tied in with Buddhist notions of satori enlightenment being achieved by being hit over the head...
...believe his denials that he knew of the cover-up that followed.* While only one in four would approve of impeaching Nixon if he was merely aware of the coverup, nearly half believe that he should be removed from office if it is shown that he knew about the plot in advance. Of the people in the sample, 62% voted for Nixon in November. The questions...
...opinion 13% Democratic and Independent votes outnumbered Republican ones on the question of impeaching the President for prior knowledge of the bugging plot. Only 32% of the Republicans felt that removal from office would be justified in this instance, but 51% of Democrats and 44% of Independents thought so. A majority of all groups agreed that impeachment was unjustified if Nixon merely knew of the coverup; 77% of Republicans, 54% of Democrats and 62% of Independents voted...
Dorothy Uhnak's Law and Order is a novel that uses three generations of Irish cops to explore the way the department actually works. The plot is a tangle of corruption, sex scandals, blackmail and professional and family loyalties. The Super Cops are Dave Greenberg and Bob Hantz, two real police heroes who patrolled a black Brooklyn ghetto with such derring-do that drug pushers and grateful residents dubbed them Batman and Robin. Also nonfiction, Serpico is about Frank Serpico, the patrolman whose charges of widespread corruption in the New York police department were eventually documented by the Knapp...