Word: plot
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...climax, a recklessly brave detective confronts the cunning culprit and somehow elicits a confession. Any detours along this well-traveled route are apt to involve the jiggery-pokery of disguises, coincidences and undisclosed facts. To aficionados, however, the mystery is not one genre but many, and similarities of plot are far outweighed by differences of setting, texture and world view. The range of the form is demonstrated by five new novels, each from an acknowledged master of his or her own niche. One is really a business novel; another ruminates on the inescapable history of the American South; a third...
Nothing better illustrates the difficulties behind this question than a bizarre case that has been simmering in academia and that last week bubbled up in some unexpected places in Washington. The plot involves a prominent historical biographer, two U.S. government scientists who specialize in tracking down fraudulent research and a computer program that they developed, known as the plagiarism machine...
...audience cannot make sense of the of the bizarre melting pot of images Williams assembles. He indulges in several impressionics tableaux: the opening pageant, a procession of religios penitents, a neo- Nazi interrogation scene. Are we to take the different scenes as individual sketches, held together by a skeleton plot, or does some dramatic unity lurk in these disparte vignettes...
This unique turn of the plot works on a number of levels throughout the performance. In the sisters' mockery of dance both in their home and later in-front of the ball, and in their interplay with the Shakespearean court jester (dressed in the Lampoon's purple, red and yellow), the sisters offer an unexpected element of hilarity to romance and of mockery to ballet's conservatism. While offering comic relief, the cross-gender casting also fits into the old English tradition of en travestie, linking theater to dance. Finally, stylistically, the stage presence of two giant stepsisters dwarf...
...game -- except in Japan. Medic, an Osaka-based software company, is selling a popular video game in which players simulate the experience of AIDS from HIV infection until death. The name of the game: Jinai Seijin, which means "Saint of Godly Love" (the manufacturers wanted an upbeat title). The plot of the game centers on a 25-year-old who strays into a red-light district and later suspects he's become infected with HIV. Players then have several choices, including promiscuity, suicide or a life with a girlfriend who also has AIDS. The game, developed by an ex-medical...