Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sounds like a plot twist in one of Hiaasen's novels, tales of besmirched pols and gritty heroes in South Florida--"except this is the sort of behavior that if you put it in a novel, critics would say it's unbelievable," Hiaasen says. Second-time-around Mayor Suarez has been back in the job only since November, when he narrowly--and perhaps unfairly--beat the incumbent. (After the election, law enforcers arrested a Suarez campaign volunteer for offering to buy absentee ballots. The Herald and state officials have been examining other irregularities, which could lead to a rematch...
...Ritz assistant security chief Henri Paul to spin out of control. At this point, they do not believe the Uno was driven by a photographer--certainly not by one of the 10 men now under investigation--nor do they seriously suspect that the driver was involved in a murder plot. But one of the reasons investigating magistrate Herve Stephan is so insistent on finding the driver, and completing a nut-by-bolt examination of the wrecked Mercedes, is to eliminate any possible suspicion of a conspiracy. Thus the search for the Uno continues...
Everyone knows they usually wind up sliding into irrelevancy and dwindling ratings amid desperate plot contrivances, like marriages and multiple births, and, in some sad cases, an irritating self-importance that increases in opposite proportion to the shows' declining popularity (bye, Roseanne). But here was someone who could have been paid regally for just phoning it in for another year or two willing instead to throw that all away--astounding in the same world that won't stop giving us Family Matters...
...screening room, sucking on a Ricola as he watched The Boxer, with Daniel Day-Lewis as Danny Flynn, a Belfast prize fighter unjustly jailed on a bombing rap, and Emily Watson as the girl he left behind. The critic dutifully tabulated each blunt plot point, each refried cliche ("I'm not a killer, Maggie, but this place makes me want to kill"). And yet, when Danny's nemesis did something monstrously rotten, the critic was so enraged by the dastardly act that he had to stop himself from spitting his candy at the screen. Extraordinary how potent cheap movies...
...rest of the novel is simply a working out of what has been said and left unsaid at this funeral supper (congratulations to the widow are unspoken, of course), it's not the worst way to tell a story. One plot contrivance, however, seems awkward: as a young man, we're told, Billy fell loony in love with Eva, a visitor from Ireland, and after she went home, sent her passage money to return and marry him. For years he believed (as his best friend had told him, inventing the tale to protect the sanity of a fragile romantic) that...