Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plot" put forward by the Israelis to justify their action is at best a manifestation of national paranoia, which may yet prove to be the undoing of a nation born with the good wishes of the greater part of humanity. We are reminded that: Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall...
...deputy, Abu Salem, who has also been a broadcaster on the Voice of Palestine, an Al-Fatah program on Sudanese radio. The other six guerrillas, carrying Jordanian passports, arrived in Khartoum on an Egyptian flight the day before the attack. Numeiry did not link the Egyptian government to the plot, but he implied that Libya, which had invited Yassin to Tripoli, might be connected...
There is a fairly promising plot notion here, a little like one of Thomas Pynchon's wonderland allegories. A motley but not unlikable crew of misfits chases around rural California in quest of a greenback grail: $312,000 in cash embezzled from a talent agency years earlier. James Caan, Sally Kellerman, Peter Boyle and Louise Lasser barrel over the back roads towing an Airstream Land Yacht, pursued by two absurdly sinister motor homes painted deadly black and piloted by unseen, relentless drivers...
Unfortunately John Costello, the director, fails to infuse the production with the rhythm and shape essential to all existential theater. Since there is little growth of plot or character, interest must come from an increasing intensity. No one in the Ex audience made it to the edge of his seat Thursday...
...plot was fairly simple (aren't they always?) and what is more, pertinent to the Crimson performers. David Partridge was running for student president of San Pueblo High School and was on the verge of losing to a brilliant girl who had the support of David's sister. David sat down in the face of impending doom and had a heart-to-heart talk with...