Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ambitious to a fault. They aren't really sure how much power they have over this process; they don't understand exactly how to use it. But that just gets them talking more. As in any good Elizabethan drama, when the king begins to falter, the princes commence to plot...
Brown says he and Judge typically prefer a one-page plot summary describing each of the show's four segments and explaining where the jokes...
More important than the plot itself is the director's distinct visual style: largely based upon carefully composed, lingering views of the landscape, usually culminating at some point with a striking tableau that freezes in one's mind even as the camera keeps moving. Angelopoulos captures unforgettable images in scenes with the most carefully constructed, basic of elements: for example, the juxtaposition of a group of people and policemen, the one under wet, dark umbrellas and the other shining wisp-like lights. Angelopoulos works with a ponderous grace as if searching for the same pure style that A. seeks...
Yesterday's bombing fell on the first evening of Purim, a Jewish holiday to celebrate the deliverance of ancient Jews from a plot to murder them...
...York magazine political columnist Jacob Weisberg formed the nucleus of the stay-put group. "We have warmth, coffee and the means of mass communication," he explained. "I'm waiting." His faction included humorist Dave Barry, who suspected a plot to keep the quadrennial revenue stream flowing one more...