Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much for the plot, which is never the strength of a spoof. "MiB" is a patchwork of moments--here, definitely, the parts are greater than the whole. The movie's at its best when poking fun at the tabloid culture that thrives on alleged alien sightings. Supermarket tabloids are the real news sources for the MiB (quips Jones: "you can read the New York Times if you like, they sometimes get it right"). The story of a farm wife, Beatrice (appropriately illustrated with an adapted copy of "American Gothic"), who claims that an alien's wearning her husband Edgar...
...stick with the public: a star witness and a catchy plotline. After just one day of Senate Governmental Affairs Committee hearings on campaign finance abuses, Thompson's committee may have both. The Senator departed from his pre-released script when he led off this morning with the plot, alleging that "high-level Chinese government officials" plotted to influence U.S. elections with illegal money in a secret operation. "Our investigation suggests the plan continues today." And then came the witness: John Glenn told Senators that Democratic fundraiser John Huang, the central figure in the investigation, had changed his mind...
...buzz-cut Navy buddies are swigging tequila around a blazing fireplace. They narrate the day's maneuvers with swooping hand gestures while a giggling, shirtless young prostitute looks on. She seems unimpressed by the flyboys' classified briefing. At the bar, a middle-aged cowboy quietly raves about a plot to swamp Nevada in methamphetamine ("crank"). The cowboy doesn't want his name used (few people do out here), but he does want the alleged drug ring to know he's on to them. "I have a friend who personally knows the retired politician who's behind all this. And believe...
Communities are recognizing the importance of revitalizing their Main Streets, once decimated by the rise of megamalls and fast-food outlets. Whether they're restoring a downtown or starting a day-care center, people are less likely to plot ways to get federal grants or insist that the government come fix the problem...
...certain nobody was thinking masterpiece. The films were often shot in a weekend with untested actors who had to get it right the first time; to producers, the only truly obscene phrase was "Take Two." The running times were as short as a starlet's skirt. A plot-heavy thriller might last 51 minutes (Maniac) or 63 (Herschell Gordon Lewis' gore-gantuan Blood Feast). Then again, the numbing incompetence of some adults-only films made that one hour seem endless. The tone of even the best of them was not so much sexy as seedy. And still the patrons...