Word: plot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PLOT of Law of Desire is worthy of any daytime melodrama. There are two love triangles, a spurned lover and characters jumping from bed to bed. As is clear from the very first scene, however, General Hospital this...
...lovers in this movie are homosexual and one of the love triangles includes a transsexual. And instead of the stifling seriousness of soap opera, Spanish director Pedro Almodovar injects a chaotic, farcical note which undermines the hackneyed plot...
Development and its perennial partner, political strife, also continue on the other side of the Square. Controversy surrounds a prized plot of land recently sold by St. Paul's Catholic Church. The buyer, H.J. Davis, Inc., plans to build 90 to 100 condominiums on the parking lot across DeWolfe St. from Quincy House...
That Darke's boss is an unnamed and perhaps female Prime Minister of Britain is not cause for broad winks. Many of the plot turns in the novel may seem improbable and even fanciful, but the feelings expressed by the characters and their sense of time (running up, running down and running out) are, without exception, genuine. There is nothing titillating or vulgar about the PM's confession of missing Charles Darke because of loving him. And McEwan's humor is never simply topical. "I can't go anywhere alone," says the government leader of the impossible romance. "Bodyguards apart...
...know what this meeting is about," said the President. Most did not, though they may have had a sense of deja vu once she began explaining. Aquino reminded them that ten months earlier she had asked the Cabinet to resign in the turmoil following an + alleged coup plot. Now, in the wake of the most serious coup attempt yet, it was time for another reshuffle. Complying with her request, each member scribbled, "I hereby tender my resignation." Defense Secretary Rafael Ileto, arriving late for the meeting, was asked by reporters outside if he would quit with the rest...