Word: plot
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bear verdict all over again.") But Wednesday, like its title, isn't clever enough to earn its self-satisfied tone. (We're spoofing TV! On TV!) Starring a wooden Ivan Sergei as an exec at the struggling IBS network, it is a rehash of Hollywood Babylon cliches. One "provocative" plot--should IBS air an execution for ratings?--is as old as TV itself. Producer Peter Tolan, who set the TV-satire standard with The Larry Sanders Show, should know better. Never send a man to do a bunny...
...Thai Premier Thaksin Shinawatra has never been shy about taking on his critics. But that's hard to do when they are an invisible band of roving black propaganda-meisters. On March 23 the PM used his weekly national radio address to warn the kingdom about a plot to undermine his government. Thaksin said "devilish" forces have been paying an army of henchmen to ride in cabs and say terrible things about him-in the nefarious hope that the cabbies would pass the criticism on to other fares. "They're damaging the country, but I won't waver," a resolute...
...Yale law professor Carter, author of such provocative nonfiction as 'The Culture of Disbelief' and 'God's Name in Vain,' is custom-designed for the kind of commercial success enjoyed by John Grisham's 'The Firm' 11 years ago...a melodrama with brains and heart to match its killer plot." First printing...
...They came, they thawed, they conquered!" Could there be a snazzier ad line for a computer-animated feature about three prehistoric buddies? This freezin' threesome--a woolly mammoth (voiced by Ray Romano), a saber-toothed tiger (Denis Leary) and a sloth (John Leguizamo)--survives plot challenges of no particular ingenuity. The film breaks anthropological ground by revealing that humans lived in the Ice Age, but its contribution to cartoon history is more modest. It yearns for Pixar-style wit without quite earning...
...office that contains its most sensitive information, and walk out again with highly classified documents. But that's just what happened last week at Castlereagh Police Station in Belfast. The perpetrators of this audacious crime did more than just provide the authors of cheap fiction with a new plot twist - they managed to spook the real-life spooks...