Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Elizabeth E. Theran '94 will recover her lost senior thesis today, ending an episode vaguely reminiscent of the plot of the new movie, "With Honors...
...scene in which she entertains the two reporters is one of the funniest of the play. As the lecherous old Uncle William, Greg Clayman is also quite amusing, and the skillful makeup job of Rosetta Lee makes his protrayal even more convincing. His handling of the standard mistaken-identity plot is cute if short-lived, and quickens the otherwise leisurely pace a bit; the play, especially in the first couple of scenes, does tend to lag due to some awkward staging...
Cataloged like this, the plot may sound like little more than anti-agitprop. And indeed The Blue Kite is by far the most excoriating depiction in Chinese film of Mao's ravages. But at its heart it is about domestic dreams, about a hope for better days that flies above the characters as brightly and vulnerably as Tietou's favorite blue kite. The rhythms of this family -- the ; meals and arguments, the worries about money and the sweet moments when a put- upon mom finds bliss playing with her bright child -- are handsomely observed and beautifully played. In Lu, Tian...
...After all these years, they can still surprise you. Part of the fun of watching is trying to figure out what the main plot line will be; the first few minutes of any episode are so packed with comic detail that the story could go in any of a dozen directions. This is one show whose writers seem to have too many good ideas...
...primarily for his historic opening of China, and the following year (in tandem with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger) for forging stable links with the U.S.S.R. and China. In 1973 and 1974, Nixon was on our cover 14 times as TIME meticulously traced the unraveling of the Watergate plot. In November 1973 we published our first editorial, which called upon Nixon to resign for the good of the country...