Word: plot
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...plot and acting were not emotionally explicit enough, the dewy score is always there to tell you what to feel. The film is symptomatic of a Hollywood that has forgotten subtlety. The comedies are gross, the thrillers sadistic, the dramas moral tales for preschoolers. At least Mr. Holland gives you some good music (Gershwin, Ray Charles, three Beethoven symphonies) to hum along with while you cry. It's a greatest-hits album, with Kleenex...
Where I have seen an ideal of a fellowship both divided and united by the memory of its painful past and thus enabled to teach the future by recalling that past, others have seen a dastardly plot to rehabilitate the lost cause of the south, or to affirm in the present the subtle and not-so-subtle racist ideology of a society that has not yet reconciled itself to its citizens of color. This present discourse is complicated by the fact that while it would appear to be about unhealed wounds between the north and the south, it is really...
...transaction. According to the billings, Mrs. Clinton met repeatedly with Seth Ward, the father-in-law of Webster Hubbell, former Associate Attorney General now serving time in federal prison for bilking the Rose Law Firm. Ward, say investigators, was a sham purchaser of the 1,000-plus-acre plot south of Little Rock because the only security Madison required for the loan was the land itself. A computer printout among the billings reveals that Mrs. Clinton drafted an option agreement for Ward to sell part of the project back to Madison...
...eight years they made 16 films, most of them labored and plot heavy. But as a live act, Martin and Lewis were awesome. Their appearances on NBC's Colgate Comedy Hour made the viewer a co-conspirator in their anarchy; they broke the "fourth wall" as blithely as if it were a cardboard prop, and incorporated their famous arguments into gag lyrics for their duets. They worked literally nose to nose: Jerry would lick Dean's face; Dean would flick his cigarette ashes in Jerry's mouth (and lick Jer's face). It was primal therapy on the 12-inch...
...critics say while fishing for a coin to toss, mixed. The Final Judgment, by Richard North Patterson (Knopf; 437 pages; $25), is less than it should be, given the author's success with his earlier books Eyes of a Child and Degree of Guilt. These are tough, well-plotted legal thrillers, set in California, with a good mix of believable male and female characters. The new story takes one of the supporting actors from the earlier books, a judge named Caroline Masters, and puts her at the center of what is more a soap opera than a mystery. The absurdly...