Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...films. At Yale Law School in the early 1970s, Lovida Coleman, now an attorney in private practice in Washington, belonged to a group of students, which Thomas was also part of, who convened in the dining room at 7 a.m. She vividly recalls the morning when Thomas described the plot of a pornographic film that she believes was Behind the Green Door. "We were all laughing hysterically," says Coleman. "He was talking about how absurd it was." Moreover, says an old friend, his methods of flirtation before he remarried were hardly those of a Lothario. "Clarence's idea...
...professors think Shakespeare produced only 37 plays, but this off-Broadway lark is the Bard's long-lost science-fiction rock musical. Small of scale and free of spirit, it features the obligatory mad monster, fair maiden, evil scientist and heroic space pilot. Sci-fi junkies will recognize the plot from the 1956 MGM flick Forbidden Planet, which the more literary-minded in turn saw as an amalgam of Shakespeare's The Tempest and dime-store Freud. (The killer demons were escapees from the id of a man who, like most sci-fi antiheroes, tried to play God.) Writer-director...
...pent-up rage all blacks feel at the violence and bigotry they have suffered for centuries: in this case, an appeal to racial resentments was the first resort of a black man accused of sexist crimes. To accept Hill's story, Thomas implied, was to join in a racist plot...
Charles B. Rosenberg focused on how the show's writers and legal consultants worked together to develop a plot that is both entertaining and legally realistic...
...story-within-a-story. At one point during a self-explorative visit to Greece, Frank ponders, "Maybe I would write about this. . . I would re-create everything: the cabride, the village and the old men..." This sentence follows upon Kaplan's presentation of these very details. Nifty plot device...