Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...angry bursts. He reiterated his objections to the idea that his officers are framing Simpson, maintaining that "it is inconceivable that behind this one murder all of a sudden you're going to get 10, 20, 30 or 40 people ... from six or seven different department organizations, to plot against Mr. Simpson." As for Fuhrman's descriptions of police misconduct, Williams snapped: "We have zero tolerance for racism, sexism and any type of anti-Semitism. That is nonnegotiable...
...Tarantino time. The popularity of Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction--the first independent film to earn more than $100 million at the U.S. box office--will midwife plenty of melodramas with Tarantino's signature plot: men in groups and on a heist, talking until the dark night of the soul gives way to a red dawn...
...indictment does speak of "others unknown to the Grand Jury" who may have been in on the plot. But that language seems intended at least in part to counter defense arguments that the government chose McVeigh and Nichols as scapegoats without exhausting the possibility of finding a broader conspiracy--a contention that McVeigh's lawyer, Stephen Jones, is already pressing. The government is continuing to look for possible accomplices, but, said Attorney General Janet Reno, "most of these leads have been pursued and exhausted." Investigators generally think that if any additional plotters do turn up, there will be only...
Alas, the plot committee takes over. An aunt and uncle reveal that Julia's long-gone mother is not dead but teaching school in Oregon. A reunion follows, not a word of which is believable, including the mother's rueful assertions that she deserted Julia's father for a lover, and later watched Julia's college graduation from a back row. This slack stuff is soap opera, and even a writer as gifted as Hegi can't dress it up as anything else...
Codrescu pours on the kinks and Gothic whoopee. If he keeps it up, he could become as rich as Anne Rice. The only thing that may hold him back is his attempt to thicken his plot with serious themes. Pleating the 16th century with the 20th, Codrescu is nervously alert for recurrent patterns of evil and its handmaiden, absolute authority. At the extreme is the countess: "She would ask them to bring her the mirror on the surface of a lake. She would ask them to open their chests and give her their hearts. She would ask them to make...