Word: subplots
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...food such as steak-and-kidney pie. Flashes of inspiration occasionally strike Rumpole in these convivial surroundings, but more often than not he returns home to Gloucester Road and discusses the mysteries of his current case with Hilda, who naturally solves them for him - or at very least a subplot. Cue theme, roll titles...
...while Harvard’s aggressive offensive assault was the story of the game, its defense provided a compelling subplot...
...None of this is to say that The Associate is a bad book. God knows it's not hard to read - with the exception of a miscalculated subplot about one of the frat brothers going to AA, it ticks along lightly and pleasantly - it's crafted and paced with the same signature glossy perfection that makes Grisham, book for book, probably the best-selling novelist in the world. It's just that it's not about anything. In fact it's amazing that anybody could put together a book that is this compulsively readable while at the same time being...
...Wire's STRINGER BELL to star as MICHAEL SCOTT'S Office rival; will introduce hilarious heroin subplot...
...widely believed among those who have closely studied the Bush 43 White House that sometime in his first term President George W. Bush ceded too much authority to his No. 2 and only learned in the second term to take it back. That is an enduring subplot in Angler, Barton Gellman's excellent book about Cheney, and it is widely believed by some of Bush's oldest, and most devoted, political allies...