Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stem less from U. S. predecessors like Lives of a Bengal Lancer than a merger of early epics about the winning of the West, with the usurping Prince Ghul substituting for Sitting Bull and the Khyber Pass as stand-in for the Oregon Trail. Principal distinction between its plot and that of the early American version of the same theme is that, instead of a golden-haired heroine, the Prince (Raymond Massey) maltreats his brown-faced little Hindu nephew (Sabu). Busily organizing a gigantic revolt of all the border tribes from Afghanistan to China, Guhl undertakes to cross a tight...
...separate complex waves and oscillations into simpler movements. Chief use for harmonic analysis is study of the problems presented by the whirls and eddies of air around airplane wings. For example, harmonic analysis makes it possible to measure the varying speed at different points in a wind tunnel, to plot these speeds on a graph and reduce complicated wind motions to a series of simple, understandable oscillations. Thus mathematicians hope to predict how the shape of an airplane wing will affect the motion of the wind. Next practical step would be designing of a wing for more speed, safety, lift...
...Take It With You (Columbia). When the play from which this picture was derived opened in Manhattan in December 1936, critics complained that Playwrights George Kaufman and Moss Hart had failed to equip it with plot, that their eccentric characters were freaks rather than human beings. Translation from the stage to cinema sometimes has extraordinary results. In this case, the result is spectacular proof that the comic exterior of You Can't Take It With You concealed not merely plot but superb dramatic conflict, and that its characters, far from being freaks, were really human beings drawn...
LAMENT FOR A MAKER-Michael Innes -Dodd, Mead ($2). A poet-madman, lord of gloomy Castle Erchany, is found dead at the foot of his castle tower. Ingenious plot; scholarly, leisurely style; copious Scottish dialect...
THEY CAN'T HANG ME-James Ronald -Crime Club ($2). Ex-newspaper publisher, shut up in an asylum for 18 years as a homicidal maniac, escapes with the intention of murdering the men who had him locked up. Clever plot, spiced with humor...