Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Audience members today, living in a world that doesn't value marriage and feminine purity to such an extent in relationships, may not get such a message from the plot; however, Violetta's struggle against fate and the scars of her past continues to have widespread appeal...
This simple plot, combined with some of Verdi's most beautiful and expressive music, makes it one of the most operatic of operas, one of the most eloquent magnifications of human emotion through the use of music...
...leave the neighborhood where the nightmares that plague him occurred; he witnessed his father's beating by the cops, his mother's heroin overdose, his father's further demise through addiction. Yet all of these scenes enter the film at seemingly random times. They give background to the plot but seem only to exist as plot fixtures. We get glimpses of the tragedies, which have happened but do not see any real connection between what has happened and what is occurring how. Raynathan, protected from many of these tragedies does not understand his brother's feelings. Yet he turns...
...tradition of satirists from Mark Twain to Salman Rushdie, Theroux updates the story of the prophet without honor in his own country. For prophet one could read writer, although the plot of this allusive entertainment gallops on its own. The style is picaresque, the message is salvation through health food, and the medium is Millroy, a road-show magician. Part Jesus, part Prospero, part yogi, he alone would make this a novel to conjure with. But Theroux adds another delight, Jilly Farina, a plucky adolescent with an artless narrative voice that, like Huckleberry Finn's, grabs and holds the reader...
...upcoming dates in Princeton, New Jersey, and at London's Royal National Theatre. "I am not remotely taking on Wharton's persona," Worth says. "I never met her. I don't know what her voice was like. I am giving feeling to her words. After having so much plot and emotion spoon-fed to them by theater or opera, audiences seem to like having to concentrate on those words and use their imaginations...