Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recent years by a populace afraid of giving any more power to the government. Even the New Deal, which brought blessings to all the South, met the most grudging reception in Arkansas, which refused to raise local funds to qualify for federal largesse, treating rural electrification as a plot against old local autonomy. When Winthrop Rockefeller gave $1.5 million to set up a model integrated school, on condition that local taxes take up the burden after five years, the school was allowed to close when its free run ended. Jeff Davis, after all, had tried to outlaw the education...
...soap-opera slickness, Beverly Hills 90210 manages to tap into real concerns of contemporary teens: dating, parents, friends, sex. Melrose Place thus far is tapping into nothing more than worn plot lines from The Young and the Restless. The characters are all gorgeous androids, their life- styles witless L.A. cliches: the first episode ends with the gang frolicking in the swimming pool. There's something ludicrous about seeing these fantasy Californians grapple with real-world problems like paying the rent and sexual harassment at work. Sort of like watching a discussion of the Yugoslav civil war on Studs...
...Shaw's witty social satire Misalliance could refer to any of the various mismatches whose inharmonious nature is revealed through the action of the play: the discrepancy between rhetoric and the motivations it masks, the friction between parents and children, or the many romantic alliances which comprise the main plot...
...secret plot or anything," DeGennaro said. "It's something we want to do openlyand aboveboard...
...Theater 3000." The show's premise: a human being and two robots are being held captive by mad scientists who make them watch bad, bad, bad science fiction movies. Throughout the film, the three sit in the front row of a movie theater, commenting drily on the acting, the plot and the script--all of which are crummy, very crummy...