Word: plot
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...begging for gratuitous blood-letting. If tragedy enthralls us with its cathartic resonance, and comedy with the pleasure of averted tragedy, then Colwin must have hoped to seduce us with sheer banality. There's no narrative crescendo, no crisis, no risk of a crisis; in short, no plot. You can revel in the lucid, elegant prose until you're blue in the face, but A Big Storm Knocked It Over constitutes the acid-proof proof that happy stories about happy people makes for unhappy reading...
...failure of the narrative lies not so much in the crushingly mundane subject-matter as in Colwin's crushingly mudane treatment of it. She wheels forth a drab plot wrapped up in cardboard characters and unrealistic dialogue. Her clear, competent prose would serve as the ideal vehicle for conveying some idea, if only she had an idea to convey...
Last weekend, Perot got another opportunity to exploit cultural caricatures. The FBI received a warning that Mexican gangsters had hired six Cubans to assassinate Perot. Prominent public figures receive such bizarre threats regularly, and investigators have been unable to confirm the existence of a real assassination plot...
...informer who helped uncover the alleged plot by radical Muslims to bomb New York City landmarks secretly recorded his conversations with the FBI. Transcripts of some of these tapes were distributed to defense lawyers, then promptly leaked to the press. The transcripts suggest that the fbi was told in advance of plans to bomb the World Trade Center. Defense lawyers hope to use the tapes to show that the government entrapped the defendants...
HAITI: The Plot Against Aristide...