Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Neglected Lives starts badly, but the persistent reader will be oddly charmed as the individual plot strands begin to weave together, strangely at first, glancing off and crossing each other in deep and surprising ways...
...Gemayel began laying the groundwork for partitioning Lebanon and creating a pro-Israeli Maronite state along Syria's border. When Gemayel's Phalangists murdered the son of Assad's friend Franjieh and more than 35 other pro-Syrian Christians in June, Syria became convinced that the plot was already in motion. Assad was further alarmed when the Camp David talks foreshadowed a separate Israeli-Egyptian peace, thereby tipping the military balance between Israel and "rejectionist" Arab states even further in Israel's favor...
...sits a bowl of fruit. After deductions for then-semiannual oil and rice allotments, the Ch'ens earn around $29 a month, though this depends on "work points," earned on performance in the field. They also raise some food - and possibly ex tra cash - on a small private plot...
...usual. Some of the characters are drawn a little woodenly, and the script is nothing much to speak of. But then, neither is the Christie original. As detective stories go, this one is pretty good, what with the beauty of Egypt thrown in above and beyond the call of plot twists and guessing games. If you like this sort of thing, go. Or if you prefer trains, see Murder on the Orient Express again...
Nicholson, having set out to direct a feature-length movie, obviously decided he might as well use a plot while he's at it, no matter how flimsy it might be. It turns out, then, that the city laws of Longhorn include an ordinance that provides a last-minute out for the condemned. If one of the Longhorn ladies can muster up enough courage to take a fellow like Henry Moone as her lawfully wedded husband, she can literally give the jailbird a new lease on life. "Ordinance wives" they call 'em in Longhorn, and much to the good fortune...