Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eurocar? But a lot of Europe's beaches had been acquired by holiday camps, and seaside property had become hideously expensive. If only Father had remembered Mark Twain's excellent advice on how to make money: "Buy land; they've stopped making it." Even a modest plot, bought in 1973, was worth 20 times its original price...
...complicated narrative line necessitates rapid crosscutting of scenes so that continuity of impact and emotional involvement are somewhat fragmented. More distracting is a pseudoGreek chorus of three women and two men who sing out the next stop in the plot rather like train conductors...
LOLLY-MADONNA XXX is a love-and-kisses signature at the end of a note that leads two Tennessee hill families into range warfare. The plot is infernally complex, while the idea- an allegory about aggression and the mad carnage it can cause- is simpleminded, like symbolizing the Viet Nam War (or any war) by a skirmish in a papaw patch. The feuding families are so grossly caricatured in the writing and direction that by comparison the Jukes and the Kalli-kaks seem like the Cabots and the Lodges. Robert Ryan and Rod Steiger appear as the opposing patriarchs, Ryan...
...spective resident of a retirement community. Here, purred the salesman, "you are free from worry. We have a security patrol, 24 hours a day, just looking after your welfare so you can sleep in peace." Replied Mrs. Duffy: "Thafs exactly what the man said when I bought a plot in the cemetery...
...structural problem which weakens and slows down the major part of the first act persists, though not so hardily, in the second. The movement of the plot sometimes hinges on tortured, obviously imposed transitions between scenes, as when a letter from Emmy Pankhurst to the Headmaster of the school where her son is dying becomes the device by which we learn of the animosity between Emmy's daughters. These vignettes provide the information which authenticates the story, but they are not effectively integrated. Only when the women dominate the stage do we feel the courage, determination, and will power which...