Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first novel, Chris Davis '73 brings us a healthy serving of computer-crazy, technothriller action that, although lacking many common plot cliches, is nonetheless limited by the nature of this tortured genre...
According to the basic tenets of the technothriller, the plot can verge on the utterly incomprehensible if necessary to increase the techno-sity level. Death By Fire dutifully includes several staccato scene changes, most revolving around the plainly nasty actions of the dastardly HYDRA, as the United States slips closer and closer towards the possibility of world-wide war, or at the very least a increased level of snappishness and naughtiness in the War Room...
...liking; it so irked him that he knocked out a review. The Hill, a congressional weekly, heard that the review was circulating and, given Ames' unique body of knowledge, offered to publish it (for no fee). "Safire uses heavy-duty cardboard for his characters," writes Ames, adding that the plot is "preposterous." But Safire isn't hurt. "It's always an honor to be panned by a traitor," he says...
...SHORTCUT, by David Macaulay (Houghton Mifflin; $15.95), is a funny, silly and exceedingly complicated adventure (Agatha Christie would have rejected the plot as too intricate) that is just right for an alert six-year-old and a wide-awake parent. The gifted artist, whose books Castle and Cathedral brought medieval architecture to life, starts with a farmer and his horse taking a load of melons to market and winds up dealing with a runaway train, a lost pig, an escaped hot-air balloon and more. All logical, too, if your eyes are sharp...
...characters meet each other and a variety of ridiculous things happen," she said, adding that the plot involves an ambitious pre-med student and a conspiracy to over-throw President Neil L. Rudenstine...