Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While some of the dialogue and song lyrics are a bit difficult to follow, the he plot line is simple. In a small English village, the betrothal of two of its wealthiest inhabitants, Alexis (Adam Wolfsdorf '97) and Aline (Jenny Little '99) is being celebrated by the whole town--with the exception of the lonely Constance (Jennifer Tattenbaum '99), who is pining away for the love of the ditzy but endearing Vicar, Dr. Daly (John Driscoll '99). Everybody seems enamored either with another person or with love itself. Even Alexis' pompous father, Sir Marmaduke (Jordan Cooper '99), admits that...
Villanova University's bookstore recently banned Cliffs Notes--the slim yellow and black-covered books that condense lengthy literary works into short plot synopses...
...oblivious to the fact that Jesus was being sneaked in on them" neither confirms his utter lack rudimentary deductive logic, nor expresses his own pathetic attempt to find something about religion he can cry about. Perhaps Liu is the clear minded atheist who sees right through the Church's plot to convert an "unsuspecting audience" to Christianity. It might not have occurred to Liu that people go to church for the explicit reason of worshiping God. Some people do believe in that stuff, you know. If Liu does not want to hear about God, that is his prerogative...
...reason anime has gained an international crowd is its ability to transcend cultural and linguistic barriers. For example, the vast majority of anime characters don't look very Japanese. Often, the names of the main characters are distinctly Japanese but their physical features are distinctly Caucasian. Or, an anime plot can unfold in a non-Japanese country but with Japanese protagonists. This more easily allows a broader, non-Japanese audience to appreciate and identify with anime characters and stories. Ironically, the anime that winds up being marketed overseas may not necessarily be the most popular in Japan...
...Volcano' has man tamper in God?s domain, by daring to build a subway in L.A. "The script," Corliss notes, "thus exploits two major fears of Angelenos: getting demolished by a horrid subterranean force, and having to take public transportation. The gookum-like lava is less smothering than the plot clich?s: our hero (Tommy Lee Jones) and his perpetually hysterical child (Gaby Hoffman), ever blundering into catastrophe; the spiky geologist (Anne Heche) who has to exclaim, ?Oh, God!? 46 times; silliest of all, the ornery whites and blacks who, when covered with gray ash, learn that, gee, Armageddon is colorblind...