Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...July--after the statistical analysis of Physics 125, as well as the about 500 other tallies CUE computes annually, were complete--when the plot thickened...
Despite its reputation, Frasier really is just another sitcom, and it uses all the typical devices. It seems as if almost every comedy on TV ended last season with a dramatic plot twist, and Frasier was no exception: everyone was fired from the station. This fall's first episode shows Frasier as he tries to deal with the grief over losing his job, and while it is above the average level of TV comedy, it's still fairly routine. Frasier's smashing a pinata at the ex-employees' picnic is the kind of contrived moment you could just as easily...
...KELLOGG, 71, incorruptible cager who as a star collegiate center in 1951 exposed a point-shaving scheme that rocked the sport; in New York City. Kellogg, Manhattan College's first black basketball player, notified his coach after being asked to participate in what was revealed to be a widespread plot to fix games at seven colleges, a fateful decision that led to numerous players' arrests. Kellogg joined the Harlem Globetrotters after graduation, but a 1954 car accident left him paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair. He went on to popularize and coach wheelchair basketball...
...doesn't matter very much that the plot is an unlikely stretch of the imagination. It also doesn't matter much that Private Ryan, played by Matt Damon, appears too late in the film to develop as a character, thus making the story's framing device--an elder Private Ryan saluting the grave of his savior--seem a bit forced and hokey. What matters most is that the story is merely a vehicle for transporting the viewer from one spectacular, eerily realistic battle scene to another. A great part of the movie's near-three hour length consists of guns...
...give Americans a taste for seeing less-than-buff foreigners in the raw? The producers of Waking Ned Devine are hoping so. The movie is the story of what happens when someone in a tiny town in Ireland wins a big lottery. It doesn't sound too racy a plot line, but it's the most dangerous one that Irish actor DAVID KELLY, 69, has taken on. "Right up to the second we shot the scene, I had never, ever sat on a motorbike, and I didn't realize one has to balance," says the 112-lb. or so Kelly...