Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is no continuity to Godard's parable. There is no consistency in his plot. The characters are blackboard stick figures; they provoke no sympathies; the climax offers no resolution. There is not the slightest degree of realism. There is stylization and fragmentation and polemic...
Tout Va Bien is the first fictional film the group has made. Its plot, such as it is, is this: Him (Yves Montand) is a former director of art films who now makes commercial advertisements to avoid hypocrisy. Her (Jane Fonda) is his wife, an American television correspondent ("I am an American correspondent in France, but I correspond to nothing"). Out to interview the manager of the Salumi food-processing factory, Him and Her find Themselves locked up in the plant by striking workers. They spend the night thus exposed to the reality of class warfare and are set free...
...Educational Council for Foreign Medical Graduates. Some American students feel that the tests, required by the American Medical Association and the American Hospital Association, discriminate against those who fail to gain admission to U.S. medical schools. Others, noting the shortage of physicians in the U.S., see an A.M.A. plot to protect the practices-and incomes-of American-trained physicians. Actually, the test is not insurmountable for most U.S. students trained in good foreign schools; it is primarily designed to weed out students who are unable to speak English or whose medical education is not up to U.S. standards. Many...
...occupation began. The militants armed themselves with guns from the trading post, adding to the weapons they had brought with them. Although the next few weeks would be tense, and Means would declare himself ready to die, AIM found itself in control of little more than a symbolic plot of ground...
...poor to survive. In a sense, they have already succumbed. In most cases, their owners earn their living away from the farm-picking up seasonal jobs as highway workers, construction hands or teachers, while scratching out a pittance from some crops and animals on a small plot out back. The agricultural programs enacted since the 1930s have not materially changed their lives. Says a top official at the Agriculture Department: "We are breaking the old myth that the commodity program is helpful to the fellow on the lower end of the ladder. The little guy's future...