Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alchemy was simple. The first ingredient was a dusty, three-acre tract in a dowdy neighborhood just off grim Telegraph Avenue. The university acquired the site two years ago, and planned to use it for a recreation area restricted to university people. The $1,000,000 plot became a vacant eyesore when the university cleared it of buildings a year ago. Last month some of Berkeley's "street people"-an amorphous assemblage of hippies, yippies, students and others falling into no classification-took over the plot. They plowed the ground and, with $1,000 raised among themselves and neighborhood...
That is one plot, and it is worth a laugh every other minute. Along with it goes a co-plot about a manhunt for a murderer whom the sheriff (Charles White) has labeled a Red Menace. With an election pending, the mayor has a certain cynical interest in corralling the law-and-order voters. John McGiver plays him with the voice of high-pitched dismay and the countenance of flinty melancholy that make all his appearances comic delights. Naturally, this plot thickens and quickens as the rival newsmen cook up story angles and bait the mayor and the sheriff...
...plot in poetry, T. S. Eliot has compared it to a lump of meat thrown a house dog by a burglar (the writer) to keep him busy while the real business is attended to?rifling the silver cupboard or dealing in the wizardry of words. Nabokov feels the same...
...unforgettable experience. Thousands made the long, slow march from the funeral home to the little white church, and then to the cemetery by the Mississippi River. There were dirges, and hymns, and muffled drums. They lowered the casket into a simple plot with a whitewashed concrete border. "G. Lewis" was painted on it in black letters. We played "The Old Rugged Cross" at graveside, then filed silently out of the cemetery...
STROHEIM shows the same tension between his characters' aspiration to virtue and their weaknesses in Greed (1923). Its plot follows a young dentist and his wife as they decline from security to poverty. Stroheim, directly equating their material situation with their moral states, places them in real settings. At the same time he floods the early scenes with light, expressing in extraordinary art their wish for purity...