Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...accident at the plant is too much a simple result of human zeal to be believed. First, a nuclear explosion would do much more than destroy the plant itself. The citizens' unquestioning acceptance of the plant lends even less credibility to the accident, as well as to the plot...
...ongoing currency mayhem and turmoil in the stock markets of Asia were, in my view, the result of a carefully calculated plot by bloodthirsty speculators. They prove Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's accusation that the outside world, particularly the West, was trying to destroy Malaysia's economy. With Asia battered, I wonder who's next? CHEE KEONG WOON Petaling Jaya, Malaysia...
...works that attempt to place themselves, regardless of genre and extent of revisionism, within the realm of historical discussion on a particular topic. On the other, there are those which make no attempt to enter the arena of debate and interpretation and merely use history as a convenient plot backdrop...
...great pity of this is that Disney is such a master of pure fantasy--there is no need to get embroiled in historical fantasy. Disney has shown, time and again, that it can come up with a great story without needing a historical backdrop to provide a plot vehicle...
...dense novel, this film brings its melodramatic and erotic undertones to the forefront. A well-bred but impoverished English girl (Helena Bonham-Carter), secretly engaged to an equally impecunious journalist (Linus Roache), persuades her lover to pay court to a young American heiress dying of TB (Alison Elliott). The plot thickens as the three take a pleasure trip to Venice. The close-up cinematography brings out the superb performances of the three stars--especially Bonham-Carter, who brilliantly captures her character's complexities...