Word: plotlessness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...pets, perching smugly in their cage throughout the attack, seem to Know Something. Are they spies for the gulls? Do they somehow madden other species? Or are they just a comment, a wry admonition that men should "love birds"? Hitchcock does not tell, and the movie flaps to a plotless...
...something more. He is a comedian who throws his custard pies in black anger, with intent to maim. His novels resemble (more accurately, are resembled by) Heller's Catch-22; the difference being that Condon's work is wildly plotted and Heller's is wildly plotless. The reaction of Condon's readers is usually either disgust and incredulity or fanatical admiration and incredulity. True believers will be pleased to learn that the first draft of An Infinity of Mirrors, a novel on Paris during World War II, is cooling off in Condon's trunk...
...less in view.of the reader, means that their fiction lacks the sense of journey-and-arrival that, even if it is only a movement from one mood to another, distinguishes a story from a prose painting or a personal essay. Most of the stories in this book are plotless. Some are mere parables, the ironies of which do not make up for the anemia of the telling. A somewhat giddy heartiness about sex in a few of the pieces does not help...
...hero of the film is a sort of Soviet Skippy named Seryozha, a small-town tot portrayed with shining innocence by Borya Barkhatov, age 5. Plotless but not without pattern, the picture develops by episodes and apparent diversions a quite subtle study of what a father's love and care and vigorous, manly example can mean to a growing...
...more widely-or ineptly -copied in Europe, where even bad Robbins is good box office. But Robbins' competition (most notably Maurice Béjart's company) will have a tough time copying, ineptly or otherwise, the ballet he produced at the Spoleto Festival last week. A plotless work designed to have, according to Robbins, "the total effect of reading the morning paper," Events adds new luster to the career of a man who, from Fancy Free to West Side Story, has developed into the freshest creator of U.S. ballet...