Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think I was treated unfairly," she said, and blamed her six-week detention on Ellis Island on a plot "to get even with my husband." But, she added magnanimously, "I won't hold it against the American people, whom I love and admire very much." In fact, she might even be back some day "if ever there's a government which will receive antiFascists as willingly as they accept Fascists...
...grandchildren. It is a more orderly and down-to-earth book than its predecessors, its characters more credible, its melodrama more restrained. But it is oddly less interesting for being more plausible, and less convincing for being closer to a recognizable environment. Part of the difficulty is that the plot seems to have been trimmed down to the proportions of a cinema scenario. Part of it is that the flamboyance and stage effects of the earlier books do not mix with the doings of backwoods storekeepers or squabbles over right-of-way. But the deeper trouble is that Author Street...
...plot is really a clash of the Silas Marner theme. Hope, as the doleful bookie, is a miser. Mary Jane, dubbed "Shorts," lands on Jones' doorstep when her father is killed for accidentally discovering a big race fix. Jones is callous towards his new room mate at first, but as the story progresses, he becomes more and more attached to her; the movie's neatest trick is conveying with subtlety Jones' growing affection for his ill-gotten ward. The first night that Shorts stays with Jones, she asks him to sing her a Lullaby. Jones complies, singing the tune...
Tulsa (Walter Wanger; Eagle Lion), like a damp fuse, provides a loud bang at the end of a long splutter. Its plot is so rambling and logy with cliches that its climax-a big fire scene-seems wonderfully good...
...readers are always delighted when they find a writer who really acts and talks like one. When Parnassus on Wheels, a quaint little novel about an itinerant bookseller, was published back in 1917, many readers decided that they had found their man. Christopher Morley was clever with a whimsical plot and wrote in the studied, slightly archaic style of another century. The tweedy, pipe-smoke flavor of his looks and books reminded many of the country-squire tradition among English men of letters. With each succeeding Morley work, readers who had cut their teeth on J. M. Barrie...