Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Northpoint, a 46-acre plot between the McGrath Highway and the Central Artery, is one of the seven possibilities for the location of the new complex...
...play's plot is not complicated, involving a conversation between a somewhat disturbed thirty-year old woman Lulu (Jessie Cohen) and a middle-class younger Black man Clay (Michael McNeal) in a New York City subway car. Lulu's accusation of "Uncle Tom" provokes Clay to an angry and bitter tirade which forms the climax of the one-act play. The climax is, however, not followed by an expected resolution: Lulu stabs Clay to death...
...heart of the book is the slow unraveling of the faceless patient's life, educed by morphine and haunted by scenes from Cairo nights when it was necessary "to proceed into the plot of the evening, while the human constellations whirled and skidded around you." That is very much how Ondaatje proceeds. One by one he introduces his characters, and slowly he unlocks their secrets, leading us through their lives as through the darkened corridors of a huge and secret house. Loves flicker, footsteps echo, lines of poetry recur. All four feel their way through darkness, by hand and memory...
...save the Bush & campaign . . . whose spokesmen are attacking them," right-wing activist Brent Bozell complained in a letter to White House chief of staff James Baker. But even before the blame game started, Bozell and fellow activists had privately invited top conservatives to meet late this week to plot the movement's recovery from a Bush defeat...
...scenery. The action takes place in a bleak urban landscape that is vaguely post-apocalyptic--a huge chain link fence lines the back of the stage, rusted trash litters the floor, and a blazing sun hangs low in the background. Although impressive, the scenery has little relevance to the plot or action, and simply gets in the way of the drama. In several telling moments, the actors trip on some of the more clunky pieces of trash...