Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plot (surprise, surprise) revolves around the competition between a likable but apparently low-born shepherd Strephon (Arthur Fuscaldo), who happens to be a fairy from the waist up, and therefore immortal, yet insufficiently prestigious to vie with the rapacious royals for the fair Phyllis' (Laurie Myers) hand in marriage...
...warden who is believed to possess the qualities of the lion he once killed in a tribal rite. The affair works its magic, and Millie blossoms, while Stan falters in his search. The warden is killed by poachers, but then a beautiful lion begins haunting the safari camp. The plot takes incredible turns, but Fabulist Ingalls (Mrs. Caliban), an American who has lived in London for 24 years, glides, with sly humor, into the fantastic so deftly that she makes events seem not only plausible but inevitable...
Although modest by local standards, the 6,500-sq.-ft. house has three bedrooms, a library, dining room, barbecue room, pantry room, two servants' rooms, a heated swimming pool and a three-car garage. Realtor Jeff Hyland says that since the land value of the plot alone could be as high as $3 million, "the house in a sense came for free." A furnished brand-new home two doors down from the Reagans' new abode recently sold for $14.75 million. "Reagan got the cheapest house in the area," says Hyland...
...race-drenched politics, and Pentecostal Minister Al Sharpton, a rabble-rouser from Brooklyn who calls New York Governor Mario Cuomo a racist and has likened State Attorney General Robert Abrams, special prosecutor in the case, to Hitler. Sharpton even contends that the assault is part of a racist plot linked to the Irish Republican Army...
DOMINICK and Eugene is yet another of Hollywood's heartwarming movies with a predictable plot, but good acting, an enlightening peek at working-class Pittsburgh and reference to important social issues redeem the film...