Word: plot
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Until children can be flash-frozen at 12 and thawed out as college juniors, a technological advance that surely will start a new service industry, Rosellen Brown's plot can be counted on to grab a mother or father by the ventricles. Lying awake in sweaty sheets at 3 a.m., any parent of any teenager ! sees an immediate future more or less like Brown's melodrama: a 17-year-old New Hampshire boy named Jacob, no sulkier or more hostile than the next kid, suddenly goes septic and gets himself into hideous trouble. The cops, in fact, think...
...clubs do not have confidence" in Vincent's ability "to carry out the responsibilities of the office of the commissioner." They further resolved that he "be requested to resign effective immediately." Vincent said he would not resign, and the owners scheduled another meeting, this week in St. Louis, to plot their next move...
...better not to regard this crew as a team at all, but rather as an ensemble of excellent actors on a goofy, lively lark. Sure, they gain and lose their elusive electronic grail the requisite number of times, often surprisingly. Their larger obligation, however, is not to the implausible plot but to their funky characters, and to the nice, wistful mood of the film. They all share a nostalgia for '60s idealism; even their nemesis (Ben Kingsley) operates out of a dark variant on those quixotic beliefs...
...styles as seen through the hungry eye of Pamela Trowel, advertising director of Hunter's World magazine. Pam is miscast not only in her career but also as a sex object and surrogate mom of Abdhul, a stray who looks like a child but talks like a grownup. The plot? Forget about it. The characters? Instantly forgettable. It's Janowitz's hyper-real prose servicing a cartoon vision that still marks her as a talent in search of an adequate subject...
...what happens when the butt of your satire co-opts your plot line? The Republican Convention could have been dreamed up by Oral Roberts -- or Bob. Folksy singers abounded in Houston, supporting party ideology with hymns to red blood, white bread and blue-tinted hair. There was country star Lee Greenwood, who has been married five times, appearing as the warm-up act for Barbara Bush on Family Values Night. If he had burst into Times Are Changin' Back, the cognoscenti's sniggers would have been drowned by cheers of the faithful...