Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stuffed with the brand names of expensive suits, shoes and wristwatches, endless spoofs of nightclubs and restaurants and rambling reviews of pop records. The litany of the trivial is intentional, though Ellis seems to be writing for people who take forever to get the point. Instead of a plot, there is a tapeworm narrative that makes it unnecessary to distinguish the beginning of the novel from...
These shocks generate most of the novel's plot. But what happens to Rabbit pales before what his jumpy, unpredictable consciousness makes of the experiences. His mind understandably roams as he tours a Florida theme park with his wife and two grandchildren: "Rabbit wonders how the Dalai Lama is doing, after all that exile. Do you still believe in God, if people keep telling you you are God?" The Dalai Lama has been in the news, and Rabbit, force-feeding himself at the tube, has become through sheer couch-potatodom a current-events buff. But the Tibetan religious leader continues...
...airborne snackoid served on your incoming flight to risk alcohol. But do you despair? Of course you do. Do you give up? Certainly, by reaching into your flight bag and withdrawing one of this season's airport novels. You know the kind. Literary wide-bodies with plenty of plot that allow you to leave the real world in the first half paragraph and stay away through several flight-delay announcements. No-qual prose and cereal-box characters are customary, though an occasional lapse into good writing does no harm. The Odyssey and Moby Dick, both wide-bodies before their time...
...From the Iraqi point of view, the overproduction of Kuwait was part of a larger plot to undermine Iraq's economy," Alnawrawi said...
This sort of stage artifice is Betrayal's central problem: every poignant gesture is extended beyond its natural limits, every subtle shade is obliterated by the stark interpretation. Even the harsh lighting creates a visual over-simplification on the stage. Betrayal is a first-rate script with an ingenious plot, and the acting in this production is generally admirable. But its black and white interpretation leaves us longing for a touch of gray...