Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ellis' plot line is, of course, true to criminal statistics, and to our intuitive sense that terrible physical violence is all too often perpetrated by men on women. But it is very much to be hoped that the outrage would be no less if Ellis' monster had been a woman, or more of its victims men (the offense, in other words, lies not in the object of the sentences but in the sentences themselves...
...production and directorial staff deserve sympathy on this account: the opera's plot is gushy and melodramatic in a way that transcends even the often sappy plots of Romantic and Classical opera. A family tries to regroup after the tragic (drunk driving) death of a mother. Daughter Susie, son Junior and Francoise, who is Susie's husband and Junior's former lover, return for the funeral and try to heal various painful wounds from the past. This is the stuff not of musical opera, but of soap opera...
...Crimson reporter, who miraculously found time to attend the theater, reports that, in the middle of the student-produced musical The Errols three huge Confederate flags descend onto the stage. The flags, of course, are presented within the perfectly proper context of the plot, and the director managed to avoid the controversy that has surrounded other flag-hangers. But given the recent popularity of that Southern symbol, the producers of The Errols might consider holding a used flag sale after the show closes. We understand there might be some takers...
...forewarned: Scum is no trashy mini-series plot waiting for the right network scriptwriter and a corporate sponsor. Like the characters it explores, the book's outward simplicity is deceptive. Singer's genius--his depiction of moral decay--is immensely complex and not fully apparent until the book's last explosive pages...
...full-time NKVD operative in Paris charged with maintaining ties to an imperiled Jewish industrialist in Berlin, who somehow knows how many bombers Germany is building each month. Fear not; Dark Star never becomes one of those breathless adventures that build fake suspense around schemes to stop Hitler. Plot is less important than Furst's powerful descriptive writing, particularly his account of Szara's nightmare flight across Poland in the first days of the war. What carries the book to a level beyond the cynicism of spy novels is its ability to carry us back in time. Nothing...