Word: plot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...haven't always felt this way about Harvard. Around the end of my junior year a few things became clear to me, however, making me doubt that I in fact had found my own little plot of heaven...
...important events of Stevenson's life with the assurance of a Welles or Vidor. In a typical twist, Leland gives the mysterious Mrs. Randall a "secret from the past," only to reveal it to the reader in the first chapter. No cheap thrills here, despite a plot so byzantine it might confuse a Dallas junkie...
...enemies are trying to kill me. They plot my ruin and spend all their waking hours planning treachery...
...matter. The point is that everything anyone thinks might possibly have contributed to that initial success is present and noisily accounted for the second time around: the pounding rock score with the volume turned up to brain-damage level; the incomprehensible plot, this time involving a series of robberies linked to an arms-smuggling scheme (don't ask how or why); the music-video montages of the good life in Beverly Hills alternating with sudden descents into motiveless and entirely humorless violence; the none-too-subtle maneuverings to bring Murphy into contact with variously dim figures...
...high-spirited adolescent commits an act of mischief. He and his buddies comically conspire to keep it secret from the adult world. Ultimately, though, the secret will out, and everyone draws a little closer together in a heartwarming and chucklesome conclusion. That plot is one of the stupefying conventions of movies about teenagers...