Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plot read like the scenario of an old Sydney Greenstreet movie, but the main character was all too real. Rugged, soft-voiced Ted Lewin, 52, is an American ex-prizefighter with a taste for dark shirts, penthouses, air-conditioned Cadillacs and shadowy wheelings and dealings. In and out of Manila, in the past two decades, he has turned many a fast peso...
Written, produced and directed by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank, who took the writing and production credits for the Broadway show, Li'l Abner boasts an appropriate Dogpatchy plot. After a nationwide survey, Dogpatch is declared "the most unnecessary place in these U.S.," and selected as the site of the next A-bomb test. Dogpatch is dramatically saved when Mammy Yokum (Billie Hayes) produces the only surviving specimen of the Yokumberry tree, whose fruit distills a tonic that can make any man as big and strong and beautiful as Li'l Abner (Peter Palmer). Then the plot thickens...
MOUNTOLIVE by Lawrence Durrell. This third book of a brilliantly conceived tetralogy is the least so far published, but it still makes most contemporary fictioners seem like placid carpenters. Against its motley Egyptian background, a raffish, colorful lot of native and international characters plot, sin and love with an intensity that edges every page with fever...
...span of 350 years is a lot to pack into a novel. Yugoslavian Author Andric does it in a splendidly evocative story of his home town, for centuries a meeting place of many races and a target for a variety of conquerors. There is no plot except the rhythm of war and peace, life and death...
...Moss Hart. Playwright (You Can't Take It with You) and Director (My Fair Lady) Hart tells of his youthful trek from The Bronx to Broadway. Few memoirs, theatrical or otherwise, can equal this autobiography's suspenseful plot, zany supporting cast and surefire humor...