Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hall's solidity in maintaining and expanding Saskia's consciousness and her narrative to the reader that makes the book consistently interesting and enjoyable to read. The body of the plot takes off in the second part when Saskia receives a letter from Thomas in Denmark inviting her to come spend the summer hiking north with him. Saskia and Jane take off for the land of the Phaiakians (the name of a god-like race in the Odyssey, whom Saskia in typical fashion maps onto her father's unknown people). The rest of the novel evolves into a series...
This controversy provides the impetus for the surreal plot of The Term Paper Artist. In the novella, the character named David Leavitt, distraught over the suppression of his novel and suffering from writer's block as a result, hides out at his father's house in Los Angeles and does halfhearted research at the UCLA library for a novel he's pretty sure he will never write. By chance he meets Eric, an attractive undergraduate, who invites him to his apartment to share some marijuana. Hoping for sex, Leavitt learns that the seductive Eric has a more complex transaction...
...Leave out the parts the readers skip," Hillerman says is the best advice he's ever received. "You'll have this great description--you distort the plot to get it in. Everyone tends to do it." And finally, he gives advice he assumes the Harvard students won't need: "Be connected...
...acting for the most part was fine: actors dealt well with the aforementioned weaknesses in plot and portrayed the stereotypes effectively. Some of the funniest scenes included cameo appearances by Mike Sugarman '98 as Vladimir, a cab driver who barely speaks English, who Janie's parents thought would be a good match...
...contrast, Isn't It Romantic very definitely had a plot. It concerns the lives of two Jewish girls quickly approaching thirty who realize that they don't know where their lives (particularly their love lives) are going. The play traces their search for resolution. Janie (Stacey Gordon '98) starts off weaker and less self-assured, while Harriet (Rachel Greenblatt '98) has a clear sense of direction...