Word: plot
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...also needed to see his estranged wife before and after their marriage was annulled. Other Beat chroniclers have noted that Cassady had a surplus of erotic energy. Carolyn recalls he was not an especially sensitive lover. Sex, it appears, was less a private act between two people than a plot element in the crowded drama he lived from day to day. Carolyn played her part when Jack Kerouac moved in. With her husband's tacit urging, she became the novelist's lover. "I provided for whichever of them was in residence according to his individual preferences," she writes of that...
Give up? Well, the movie is Quick Change. But it's no wonder that most elements of its plot may remind you of other recent films...
...Plot, admirably scripted by Don Jackoby and Wesley Strick from a story by Jackoby and Al Williams, centers on a giant Venezuelan spider, accidentaly imported into a small northern Californian town in the coffin of its first victim. The belligerant arachnid then mates with a harmless domestic spider, creating a deadly army of offspring which quickly goes about killing members of the unsuspecting populace. The remainder of the film concerns itself with the town's efforts to rid itself of the newly acquired menace...
...show leaves one wishing that Reddin were less preoccupied with writing about people so lacking in self-awareness, so ethically dead that in a crisis they shrivel rather than change. By temperament he cuts himself off from straightforward plot development. His characters rarely grow and deepen, eliminating another avenue by which plays accumulate impact. Thus this fine writer produces works that stimulate the mind but do not linger in the heart...
...eager to plunge into her, unable to hold back." The cumbrous exposition: "He always imagined that people were making fun of him behind his back, which was sometimes true." The colliding metaphors: "He was in good hands. He had his foot in the door." And below all, the implausible plot...