Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...imprinted aspects of traditional narrative form." Barthes enters this series of experiments with a narrative practice that Miller joins him in naming "the novelesque without the novel." The technique is characterized by an "indifference to overall architechtonics," and a choice to pursue "an incident dislodged from the teleology of plot...
...many mutual funds, including the Fidelity Low-Priced Stock Fund and Janus Venture, have temporarily stopped accepting new investors. "There have been closings of funds before, but never so many," says Erick Kanter, vice president of the Investment Company Institute, a money-fund trade group. "Managers need time to plot their investment strategies." The steep growth of mutual funds, which reached a record value of $1.7 trillion last year (see chart), began in earnest in 1989. As interest rates began dropping, profit-hungry investors moved away from low yielding certificates of deposit and treasury bonds to where the action...
...other times, Hwang forgets the cardinal rule and lets his characters tell rather than show; Randall spells out, "This change in appearance has somehow changed the inner man." In impeding the otherwise rich evolution of plot and character with soapbox monologues, Face Value underestimates its audience. Hopefully, much of the speechifying will be cut as Face Value continues its pre-Broadway engagement at the Colonial Theatre, so that nothing detracts from the attention the plot and characters deserve...
...existing." Painfully maudlin commentary unfortunately comprises the bulk of this ill-fated production of Ronald Ribman's Dream of the Red Spider. If only it had been written with a sense of humor or perspective, maybe this play would have been tolerable. But the overblown dialogue, sparse plot, and half-hearted acting make this performance dull, dull, dull...
When M. Butterfly was reviewed in The New Republic, Robert Brustein had said that there was too much plot, much going on, but that he still preferred an overspiced dish to stale white bread--do you think you tend to too much plot, too much story in this new play...