Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suprisingly, the touchstone for all the wild plot twists and hence, social commentary, is tenure...
...Washington's mayor, and Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, should celebrate Black History Month by watching Glory. When Barry was arrested for cocaine possession last month, Hooks' most visible reaction was that the mayor had been the victim of a plot by law enforcement to persecute black elected officials. Presumably, the mayor of the nation's capital (not exactly an unemployed ghetto youth, but, absurdly, a role model for unemployed ghetto youths) is not responsible for being in a hotel room with a fashion model, smoking crack. A white conspiracy must...
...Charles Ponzi promised a return of 50% in less than two months. The plot was ingeniously simple: he paid the early customers (and himself) with money from the later ones. When the whistle blew he was $3 million in arrears. Ponzi served a three-year sentence. Paroled, he advertised a new scheme, 200% in 60 days. He was rearrested and eventually deported to his native Italy. Only two things were left behind: the usual dupes and the name Ponzi schemes, still used to describe illegal methods of fleecing the sheep...
...plot does not, however, manage to explain the closing French Can-Can kickline and Wizard of Oz sequence, which have literally nothing to do with each other, the plot, the Victorian era or the '70s. (My guess is that the writers associate the 1939 movie with their childhood, and so with the '70s period as a whole.) But you can't change every stupid tradition at once, and this fresh, fun production has more going for it than any Pudding show I've seen...
...plot is much more interesting than that of any hockey game, and the costumes are certainly more flattering. And, though hockey season is in danger of ending woefully early, the Pudding is just starting. So, whether you're a committed Pudding fan or a somewhat frightened newcomer, "Suede Expectations" is too good to miss. Trust me, Nick...