Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Your Handkerchiefs fails to develop its characters much behond their pretty faces. Solange, the heroine, has three lovers: two are buffoons, her husband and a stranger he recruited to cheer her up, and one, a thirteen-year-old boy, is sensitive to her need for friendship. The plot is inconsistent, the jokes are obvious, and the direction is heavy-handed. You might find this film a clever and coy French farce--if you're drunk...
...plot is typical Gilbert and Sullivan--complex, nonsensical, and irrelevant. The princess of the title flees her palace to avoid marrying a prince pre-chosen for her. She establishes a school for young ladies, dedicated to the disliking of men. The school is literally shut away from male society by a wall that encloses the grounds. But the royal fiance, in search of his princess, manages to enter the school--disguised as a girl. The women's academy setting loosely ties the production into the Radcliffe centennial, reportedly one of G & S's reasons for mounting the show this year...
FELIX MALDONADO woke up one morning to find he lost his face and name. Or rather, Felix Maldonado woke up one morning and discovered he had undergone plastic surgery and been given an alias. All because he had failed in an assassination plot on Mexico's president's life--an act he had performed against his will...
...Hydra Head's plot, like that of most of Fuentes' novels, is practically non-existent. It concerns Felix Maldonado's passive evolution from a petty civil servant in the ministry of Economics to a staked assassin. Events are connected enigmatically--Maldonado returns from his operation to his Jewish wife who is rocking mutely in a nun's habit; a man killed in a meat freezer scrawls the word "nun" in blood on the glass door. The reader, along with Maldonado, wonders whether and why things occur. All the disjointed events arrive at a climactic suspension--Maldonado's second attempt...
...allusions, internal consistency, and lots of symbolic geometry. But Bloom doesn't make the effort attractive enough; his book lacks any felicities of description, characterization or narrative. For one thing, its 52 chapters, each four to six pages long, leave no room for any sort of rhythm in the plot. Even worse, the book's brevity makes a mockery of its epic pretensions...