Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...subdivision full of AT&T and IBM executives. His stepdad, Robert Daniele, is a trucking-company executive who likes to hunt; his mom, Mae Dean, is a secretary. The family moved to the well-kept neighborhood with Georgian homes for the space--their house sits on a one-acre plot--and the schools. Heritage is regarded as one of the best in the area...
...first choice for the job was not Coelho, but the totally unobjectionable Commerce Secretary Bill Daley, who turned it down. When the story of the Coelho pick emerged, it came with its own Lifetime Television Network plot line: Coelho, who suffers from epilepsy and chairs the President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities, said he was so moved by Tipper's admission of depression that he decided to take the job. In any case, the deal was sealed when Gore, his wife and Coelho all met for two hours last Saturday at the Vice President's house...
...sure mark of a less-than-literary children's book: it carries an FDA nutrition label, and the first ingredient is sugar. In an effort to lure less eager young readers, Nibble Me Books, Inc., has produced a series of candy-driven tales. So much for stories sweetened with plot, character and the lilt of language. These books have jelly beans and giant gummy creatures embedded in the pages. (Floss not included...
...plot is familiar to anyone with access to a computer or magazine. Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson) and his apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor), hoping to settle a dispute between the flabby Republic and an insurgent Trade Federation, find Queen Amidala (Natalie Portman) on the planet Naboo. Diverted to Tatooine, they meet the boy Anakin Skywalker (Jake Lloyd), who has a mysterious force--perhaps the Force. They amass for a fierce face-off against battle droids and the malefic Darth Maul (Ray Park...
...plot is more complicated than this--and much chattier. Even the opening is talky. "Turmoil has engulfed the Galactic Republic," the now familiar trapezoidal text-crawl tells us. "The taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems is in dispute." Immediately one is perplexed. A summary made sense in the earlier films; they were episodes IV, V and VI in the grand fable, and as continuations of an initially untold saga, they required some elucidation. But what's the need for back-story text in a tale that is just beginning? Can it be that Lucas was unable to dramatize...