Word: plot
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...BUCHANAN ROSE IN THE POLLS IN IOWA, the Dole campaign began to panic--and to plot. It quietly added some new and pointed questions to its routine polling. Its telephone polltakers began asking hundreds of voters in New Hampshire whether they would be more or less inclined to vote for Buchanan if they knew he once said that women lacked "ambition and the will to succeed," and that South Korea, Taiwan and Japan should be armed with nuclear weapons. More than 70% of those polled said they would be less likely to vote for Buchanan. Thus a campaign was born...
...rule by Vere Bird Sr., the tiny island with a population of only 63,000 became one of the most corrupt in the region, long known for sheltering traffickers in armaments and drugs. According to U.S. intelligence sources, Bird's son Vere Jr. has been tied to a 1990 plot to establish a school that would train mercenaries to fight for the Medellin cartel. He was also involved, they say, in covert gun shipments to the cartel through Antigua, Panama and Colombia. U.S. investigators contend that the Bird dynasty--the current Prime Minister is Vere's son Lester--continues...
Rumble audiences may titter at the naive plot (the director is Stanley Tong), but they will gasp at Chan's lithe, lightning reflexes when he takes on five creeps in a deli or executes a jump from one high building to another. You watch these impossible stunts with fear and gratitude for the hardest-working man in show biz. To see your first Jackie Chan movie is to fall in love with what the movies once were: a comic ballet of bodies in motion...
...FOREIGN FILM IS CAPTIVATING--say the Chinese drama Raise the Red Lantern--within a few minutes the subtitles melt away. One forgets that the characters are speaking a different language, and the message of the film, its plot, its humor, come through. So too with music. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is a huge star in his native Pakistan; but although he speaks no English, and his songs are often in Urdu, he has built a following of hipster fans in the U.S. Khan is a singer of qawwali--Sufi Muslim religious music, which, like gospel, seeks to bring listeners closer...
Moliere's Tartuffe is a clever, funny play about religious hypocrisy in 17th century France. Auletta's version does not change the plot, but blatantly directs the satire at televangelists and the religious right. And it is funny. But not always for the right reasons...