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...German film? Does spending two hours watching a group of conquistadors drift down a river, dying off one by one (the plot of Werner Herzog’s classic “Aguirre, Wrath of God”) fail to inspire you? Fear not, Herzogophobes, because there is life after his brand of New German Cinema. The Harvard Film Archive (HFA) recognizes this salvation in an upcoming series: “Growing Up: The Films of Hans-Christian Schmid,” running from Nov. 18 through 21. The series, co-presented by the Goethe Institut Boston, aims to introduce...
...found myself quickly skimming through the plot to reach the next sidebar. Exciting plot points, though, included the insinuation that HUPD officers are vampires themselves, and that even though Neesa Barnett killed a fellow student, it is far far worse that she plagiarized her thesis. (“‘She didn’t write it,’ Parker finished for him.” She didn’t write it: Submitting work that isn’t your own is quite possibly the gravest offense at Harvard...
...Never Can Tell” is the fourth and final of Shaw’s “Plays Pleasant,” a series of light, satiri-cal comedies that Shaw penned in the early stages of his career. There’s not much of a plot. Instead, a custody battle, a romance, and turn after turn of sparkling conversation float easily along in the play’s seaside setting...
...foreign investment in the early 1990s. Back then, Hanoi's streets were filled mostly with bicycles and all fax machines had to be registered with the police, but that didn't stop international executives from packing the bar of the only foreign-run hotel in Hanoi, the Metropole, to plot their future fortunes. "In that one bar on any given night," recalls Salzman, "there were people who, combined, could have pledged to invest $50 billion on the spot." The good times didn't last. In large part due to the communist government's murky investment rules and snail-pace economic...
Characters? Oh, there are lots of characters. Easily more than 100 flit in and out of the madly proliferating plotlines. And those plots? In a novel that begins at the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and concludes in the aftermath of World War I, one that passes through Colorado, Venice, London, Vienna, Mexico, central Asia, the upper atmosphere and the fourth dimension, there are frequent stretches where a new plot seems to start every paragraph or two. The book opens with the Chums of Chance, a quarrelsome brotherhood of operatives that pops up throughout the novel, circumnavigating the globe...