Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There are those who say that "Blade Runner" is just another bunch of hackneyed cliches sewn together by an almost incoherent plot, saved only by some pretty pictures...
With the debut of Cliffs Notes, students across America found that they could forgo last-minute wading through painfully thick tomes at the expense of health and sanity. Instead, they could refer to an appealingly slender, ever-so-friendly booklet brimming with handy plot summaries, character sketches, and salient themes which would have been lost on a harried student dashing through the real thing. Suddenly, writing papers became a breeze--and moral questions arose as to the appropriateness of the Notes...
Freeman teaches small seminar classes on feminism and psychoanalysis, which can't easily be reduced to Cliffs-speak. Thus, her students have little reason to turn to plot summaries, she explained. The little books are as foreign to her as earth would be to a Martian, Freeman said...
...when a movie studio agrees to license a video game, it gets involved in the game's design from the start. When Steven Spielberg realized that a plot he was considering for a movie would work better as a game, he took it to his friend George Lucas, whose own video-game operation turned the idea into a spelunking adventure called The Dig. At Sony Interactive, every movie script that Columbia buys is screened by the video-game department for its game potential. If it looks promising, says Olaf Olafsson, president of Sony Electronic Publishing, a separate scriptwriting team develops...
...faculty to object because within a half-hour's conversation with him I thought this boy was borderline psychotic." But to Power he was a romantic revolutionary who could help the movement secure its goals. Along with Bond, her roommate Susan Saxe and two other ex-convicts, a plot was hatched to hold up a Brighton bank to get money to buy explosives to melt down the wheels of trains that carried weapons. Those weapons would then be used to arm the Black Panthers...