Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about, an aging entrepreneur haunted by specters from films nearly two decades old. Because this is a movie about loss, Pacino must relinquish the steely calm of his youthful Michael; now he is Lear without the grandeur. Nor can G3 find suave new twists and characters to propel the plot and lure the teens. Garcia, an electric actor, swaggers so handsomely that he makes one wish for another sequel. But he is helpless to strike sparks with Sofia Coppola (the director's daughter), whose gosling gracelessness comes close to wrecking the movie...
...some colorful conniving: who'd have guessed that an international cartel fatally poisoned Pope John Paul I? But G3 never persuades one of the urgency of its maxim that "finance is a gun, and politics is knowing when to pull the trigger." With all its boardroom bickering, the plot is a gun that shoots mostly blanks. G3 is too faithful to the deliberate pacing of the first two films: the slow walking into a dark room, the silence surrounding the threats. For two hours the movie labors up the winding path of its story, wheezing like...
...Lithgow) for advice. Death proposes that Santa find another line of work--namely, selling knowledge. He suggests that Claus use the buzzword "scientific" to peddle his non-existent wares. "Why say fantastic when you mean scientific?" Death asks. Soon he has Santa selling stock in a "wheel mine." The plot becomes even more convoluted after this. Death and Santa exchange outfits, and a vengeful mob comes looking for the owner of the "wheel mine...
Maybe there's no activist plot to poison the hearts and minds of the student body, but the net effect of these activisms is one that produces "liberal totalitarianism." Perhaps every time an activist group opens its collective mouth, all others take that as a cue to silence themselves. That, too, seems unlikely...
...wing challenge to George Bush in 1992. The main purpose of such a kamikaze mission would be to force Bush to return to the fold on taxes. Activists, including American Conservative Union chief David Keene and former Reagan Administration official Don Devine, have convened several times in secret to plot strategy. Two groups met last weekend, one in Dallas and another in suburban Maryland, and talk of rebellion is becoming more public. An upcoming article in the Heritage Foundation's quarterly Policy Review recalls Teddy Roosevelt's 1912 Bull Moose challenge to fellow Republican William Howard Taft, which resulted...