Word: plot
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...Pirates of Penzance--by Arthur Sullivan and W.S. Gilbert. With its outstanding music and uproarious plot, Pirates is one of Gilbert and Sullivan's most popular operettas. In the Agassiz Theater at 8 p.m. Admission for evening performances is $9, $7 for students; for matinees $7, $5 for students...
Cabezon spends much of the first half of his narrative recounting his daily excursions through the city, and plot development is spare. But Aridjis manages to keep-at times enthrall-his readers with a painstaking and prodigious recreation of everyday life. Aridjis' extraordinary research has provided us with lovingly detailed descriptions of everything from Castillian dress-down to the very weaves of the garments-to marriage rites, to the arcane systems of weights and measures...
...nation's first teenage heartthrob vice president. To counter his widely perceived boyishness early in 1989, Quayle dyed the hair just above his ears gray. This, of course, was to impart an image of distinguished, rather than school-boy, good looks. But when news of his hair-graying plot came out, Danny just looked ridiculous...
...dated, and neither time nor camp tastes have improved Mister Ed. But even middling sitcoms like The Patty Duke Show are more effortlessly engaging than most of the nervous joke machines that pass for comedies today. Good ones like The Dick Van Dyke Show remind us that the trivial plot lines of old domestic comedies were often a mask for shrewd satire of suburban neuroses. The best ones, like I Love Lucy, which invented the vocabulary for the modern sitcom, have the formal perfection and infinite repeatability of great pop music...
That was then. Glory days, but as the years and the story's somewhat invertebrate plot progress -- Keillor's authentically rural narrative method is infinite digression -- the pickings thin out. Like the rest of WLT's hayseeds and gallus snappers, the Shepherd Boys begin to lose listeners. In their prime, Keillor relates, they "could kill a quart like it was lemonade and and then they would jump in the sack with anything in high heels, hop out and sing 'The Old Rugged Cross,' and feel so good, they'd jump right back in." Maybe they still could, given the chance...