Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...biggest skeptic was Lotus chairman Jim Manzi, 43, who had spurned an IBM merger offer in January and learned of the takeover attempt in a phone call from Gerstner at 8:25 a.m. last Monday, five minutes before IBM went public. Manzi swiftly hired investment banker Lazard Freres to plot defense tactics and search for a white knight, such as AT&T or Hewlett-Packard, that would rescue Lotus. No savior had appeared by week's end, however, and Manzi seemed resigned to coming to terms with IBM if it would sweeten its offer. Wall Street watchers expected...
...film, written by Sherri Stoner and Deanna Oliver, has the cartoons' familiar plot: Casper searches for a friend and finds one in Kat (Christina Ricci), a lonely girl now in residence at sepulchral Whipstaff Manor. Among the contenders for possession of this dark old house, which looks like a tyrant's wedding cake that has started to melt, are a venal heiress (the ripely funny Cathy Moriarty) and her sidekick (Eric Idle); Casper's uncles, three ectoplasmic boors named Stretch, Fatso and Stinkie; and Kat's klutzy dad (crinkly Bill Pullman...
DIED. STANLEY ELKIN, 65, darkly witty, language-obsessed novelist; of a heart attack; in St. Louis, Missouri. Author of 17 books, Elkin won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1983 for George Mills, which-in a plot typical of his absurdist bent-follows a thousand-year lineage of losers with the same name, from a misguided medieval crusader to a furniture mover in present-day St. Louis. Elkin remained a prolific writer despite suffering from multiple sclerosis...
Newt Gingrich's office, decorated with bloody Civil War battle scenes, makes an ideal command headquarters. Atop the highest ground in the city, he can survey the entire territory he hopes to conquer-and plot the ambush he says can clinch that victory. By fall, Gingrich predicted in an interview with TIME, the Republican Congress will have passed a raft of bills to implement its seven-year plan to balance the budget and will confront Bill Clinton with an excruciating choice. He will have to sign on to spending cuts that will inflame his Democratic supporters or veto them...
...This plot will be familiar to any Dracula fan. Telly is the vampire, pestilent and possessed; Darcy is Mina, his virginal victim-to-be; and Jennie is both Lucy, the walking dead with the fatal love bite, and Van Helsing, the fearless vampire killer. But well before Jennie embarks on her long night's journey into daze, Clark and screenwriter Harmony Korine have worked at numbing the viewer with scenes of anomic decay. It's not the rough huff of the sex play with girls who look to be on the green side of puberty, though these trysts pack their...