Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...libel their nation. More likely, they say, an American missile mistakenly blew up the plane or maybe there were lethal laser emissions--and the pilot was roller-coastering to dodge them. Or an insane hijacker masterminded the crash to damage Egypt's reputation. Or it was a Mossad plot to kill the 33 military officers aboard...
When I read about the Ohio teens accused of a Columbine-style plot to go on a killing spree at their school [NATION, Nov. 8], I was angry but not surprised. After the massacre of students at Columbine High School, I often cringed at the way the media (including your publication) constantly referred to the political and social beliefs of the two murderers, giving them a national platform. A group of Ohio teens have a social message that they want the world to know about, and so they plan an attack on their school. Where would they get this idea...
Just what were the parents and lawyers of the suspects in the Ohio plot thinking when they suggested that "authorities were overreacting to teenage boasting and misunderstandings"? Just where have these folks been for the past few years? Ridiculous! And the shame of it is that the parents and high school personnel paid no attention to the warning signs. If lawyers plan to use overreaction as their argument in the courtroom, I pray that it won't fly. LAVERA PORTER WILLIAMS Sun City, Calif...
...ready to return the favor as I watched Pikachu's Vacation, a harmless, mildly inventive short cartoon that precedes the feature. The plot, eventually, is about the communal effort to pull a dragon's head out of a drainpipe. But the fun comes before, as the whole gang cavorts--heads rolling, bodies warping--in a cheery Dadaist vaudeville that echoes Bob Clampett's 1938 Looney Tunes triumph, Porky in Wackyland...
...Irish girl come to Birmingham, England, to find the guy who left her pregnant. He (Bob Hoskins) is a caterer with an eye, and a knife, for the ladies. In this sort-of comedy about a serial killer and his next intended, the only thing pushing the plot is relentless coincidence--a movie this implausible shouldn't be this dull--and a very aggressive score that tells you what you would have felt if the film (from the director of The Sweet Hereafter) had been made with more passion and craft. Only Hoskins rises above the dankness. His malevolence...