Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only is Breathed recycling the same punchline every week, he apparently intends to depict the same event over and over. The plot of every strip so far has been the passage of Ronald Ann into this Outland. The first strip showed her walking through a door, and all the episodes since have retold that event in a new way. Last Sunday the mouse and the rat kidnapped Ronald Ann in between a gang war and a rabid alleycat. Breathed's attempt to show us the variation possible in any given even is certainly an attempt to deliver modern...
...prime time); then Michaels returned with an all new cast that ranged from teen flashes-in-the-pan like Anthony Michael Hall to Hollywood veteran Randy Quaid. But the ensemble - feeling had disappeared, and the writing had grown desperate and juvenile: in one witless sketch, Bobby and Jack Kennedy plot to murder Marilyn Monroe. There was talk of cancellation...
...CLANCY'S plot is straight out of today's headlines--maybe even a day ahead--as it weaves a story around a the federal government's efforts to fight the drug...
...latest effort, Clear and Present Danger, seems realistic not because of its description, but because of its plot--which anticipates with frightening accuracy exactly how the South American drug war has unfolded in recent months...
...shortcomings, Clear and Present Danger is still worth the effort. Clancy fans will doubtless find the detailed gadgetry dazzling and the action-based plot more than enough to keep even the weariest eyes awake. Those who have never read him before will be at least be tantalized enough to try out his earlier works...