Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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THIS NOVEL, TONI MORRISON'S sixth, takes only its first five sentences to disclose the central plot. Within a few more pages, most of the details have been provided. The setting is Harlem, the year 1926. Joe Trace, 50, shoots and kills Dorcas Manfred, the teenage girl with whom he has been having a clandestine affair. When Joe's wife Violet, also 50, hears what has happened, she goes to Dorcas' funeral and takes a butcher knife to the dead girl's face...
Despite its unresolved plot and unflattering direction, Supposing Rommilly is worth seeming. The play resonates with selfconscious humor and raises interesting questions about where fiction ends and reality begins. And the wonderful music, lyrics and acting make for an extremely enjoyable evening...
...course, unrealistic to hope for a developed plot in a plan that is over almost before it starts. But surely it is not unfair to expect some cohesiveness to all the fractured images of rackless dissipation and wild cavorting. Whatever deep symbolism Gammons was groping for was concealed in a fog of groundless cynicism and unearned world-weariness...
...cultural richness. It is the City of Joy. It is Calcutta. Director Rolanld Joffe captures the soul of the poor of Calcutta in a visually and photographically rich rendition of Dominique Lapierre's book, City of Joy. Although the focus of the movie is far too narrow, and the plot is sometimes too convoluted, the direction and cinematography are laudable. The actors shine, the music is enticing and the atmosphere is authentic...
...plot revolves around Dr. Max Lowe (Patrick Swayze), who goes to India in search of "enlightenment" at an Ashram near Calcutta. Frustrated by his career in America, he yearns to "find himself." Instead he finds himself stranded in Calcutta, robbed of his money and passport, where he accidentally encounters Hazari, a poor Indian farmer masterfully played by Om Puri. Hazari has a family--a wife, Kamla (Shabana Azmi), two sons and a daughter. Hazari pulls a rickshaw for a living, under the auspices of the Landlord--known as the Godfather to the tenants--and his merciless son, Ashok. The story...