Word: plot
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...child who is actively seeking her way home, Smith plays a wide-eyed, younger Dorothy who is pulled around the land of Oz by her new-found friends. As such, these friends, the Scarecrow, Tinman, and Lion, become much more important to the action and motion of the plot...
...book Hitler's Willing Executioners [BOOKS, April 1] asks a question that Germans of the younger generation have long wanted to pose to their parents and grandparents: What did they know, and what did they do? One thing is certain: there are no simple answers. The Holocaust plot involved fanaticized henchmen as well as sadistic executioners, opportunistic collaborators and people who heard rumors they would or would not believe in the context of raging war and burning cities. After all, the regime went to extraordinary lengths to disguise what was going on, apparently afraid of what the popular reaction would...
...tragic instance, the dangers of such overachieving or intense focus on one activity show up in countless ways. The child actor grows up without an education; the tennis star mysteriously drops off the circuit to spend some time being a teenager; the figure skater takes part in a plot to club an opponent. Child athletes may ruin their bodies: ballerinas develop anorexia; teen football players take steroids. And doctors say they are seeing more and more young people who are not special stars exhibiting a range of emotional problems, from depression to eating disorders to suicidal tendencies. "We see many...
...noted for their daft, deadpan playlets about modern domesticity--and for their fondness for women's frocks. From these five young men (David Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney and Scott Thompson) now comes the inevitable feature film, Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy. This movie, borrowing the plot of the 1951 Alec Guinness comedy The Man in the White Suit; is about a "happy drug" that makes everyone miserable. Bad news for the Kids: the movie (directed by Kevin Makin) will have the same effect. The story is flat and shrill; the characters show little life; the needle...
Lampoon staffers also spoofed the recurring plot themes in the "Vacation" movie series, which Chase said "ate the big thing...