Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sanskrit liturgy was repeated for the third and final time at the burial plot, under a large dogwood tree. As Duc finished the incantations, Ho's coffin was lowered into the ground. The mourners bowed their heads three times, in accordance with Vietnamese custom...
...older sister, Thao, a student at Tufts University, comforted Ho's younger sister Tram, as they stood next to the plot. Meanwhile, dozens of mourners slowly filed by the coffin, tossing flowers into the grave. Some knelt before Ho's photograph on the ground or crossed themselves...
Over at General Hospital, once TV's top-rated soap and currently a slightly faded No. 3, writers seem to be aiming for morbid, publicity-conscious social relevance. Last week ABC held a press conference to announce the launch of a new G.H. plot line revolving around dyslexic heartthrob Stone Cates (Michael Sutton). Stone, a former street kid who dates likable Port Charles teen Robin Scorpio (Kimberly McCullough), has just discovered that he is HIV positive. His illness will progress in what network press material describes as "real time" and will "not be rushed for the sake of accommodation...
...contain or adequately characterize The Perez Family in a plot summary. For, writer Robin Swicord (Little Women) and director Mira Nair (Mississippi Masala) have crammed their film to bursting with wayward characters and strangely arresting incongruities. Nair has called the movie "an overripe mango," and that's as good a metaphor as any for a juicy, messy, exotic and utterly delicious treat...
...director John McTiernan and writer Jonathan Hensleigh turned the tables and appropriated a device sure to be used in this summer's Batman Forever. Like the Riddler, Vengeance's evil genius (Jeremy Irons) taunts the hero with word games, history quizzes and math problems -- riddles, see? This keeps the plot clock ticking as McClane and a good-hearted black racist (Samuel L. Jackson) dash around Manhattan at Irons' bidding...