Word: plotting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...removed," says Rogers. He also wants "a veneer of legitimacy" and hopes the planned 2010 elections will provide it. Than Shwe has vowed to create a so-called "discipline-flourishing democracy" that will not only entrench military rule but protect his legacy - and his skin. In 2002, suspecting a plot against him, Than Shwe put Ne Win, the man who had first elevated him to power, and his daughter under house arrest and jailed his grandsons. "Ne Win died in ignominy," says Christina Fink, author of Living Silence: Burma Under Military Rule, a landmark book about life under the junta...
...play takes the form of a series of vignettes spread through time, and actors and director agree that the plot takes a back seat to the characters and their interactions...
...were impressed when Figgins’ anti-embolism stockings ad and "Sue’s Corner" resurfaced as plot points again. By now we figured these were one-time gags, but perhaps no plotline is ever dead on Glee. Could a football Kurt comeback be far behind...
...Bed” manual, “An Education” focuses on the late adolescence of Jenny (Carey Mulligan), a London schoolgirl who enters a reckless romance with an older man. Hornby imbues the film’s script with his trademark wit and fast-paced plot development, but despite his compact and compelling writing—recognizable from earlier films like “High Fidelity”—he reveals a weakness for tidy resolution that foregoes the film’s darker, more powerful aspects...
...fragmented. And though the idea of compiling scenes to describe the time-old notion of the “seven sins” is inspired, the execution doesn’t fulfill the concept’s potential. The show is lively and entertaining, but only one of its plot lines is fully resolved. The continuation of the “pride” storyline—which appears in three different scenes—is the only to work well. Perhaps developing the other sins a little further would have made the play more memorable...