Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weird scale and weave of plot lines, [it] was indeed innovative; its basic premises, though, were old news, which made its whiff of self-congratulatory nihilism annoying...
...himself on having created a "microcosm" of the Justice Department, "but perhaps more elaborately fine tuned," true legal diversity eluded him. He had tough prosecutors and brilliant litigators recruited from around the country, but his Lewinsky team had few lawyers with strong criminal-defense backgrounds to provide balance, help plot the next move or weigh in on the treatment of witnesses. "Government lawyers have never had to sit in a room with somebody who is completely innocent," says a former Starr assistant, "and know the personal toll on that person and their families." Starr's ethics adviser, Watergate eminence...
Some of the stories about her shaded into fantasy and wishful thinking. Reporters buzzed with the rumor that she had a CIA connection. On Meet the Press, Louis Farrakhan suggested she was part of an Israeli plot to bring down the President. And this fall an interviewer for the New York Observer asked her whether she'd had a lesbian affair with Tripp. (For the record: she hasn't. God is merciful...
...There is little to keep them out after dark, even on a peaceful night before the holy month of Ramadan. Baghdad is worn down by an eight-year-old embargo. Iraqis hurry home at nightfall to count the nearly worthless dinars they have managed to earn this day, to plot and scheme how they will bring in a few more in a life of meager survival. What happens will happen. They have known neither peace nor prosperity for more than 18 years. Who are they to disagree when Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz comes on the TV news...
...slice of Irish local color, full of overripe characters and accents you can barely decipher. But Martin McDonough's extraordinary play, about a mother and daughter testing each other's patience in a bleak corner of rural Ireland, gradually displays an imposing arsenal of playwrighting weapons: a well-made plot that keeps bending in unexpected ways; flashes of sardonic comedy; and a sense of tragic inevitability that Ibsen himself might have admired. Flawlessly performed by the original London cast (three of the four won Tonys), it is one of the major theatrical experiences...