Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Notable exception: Columnists Joseph and Stewart Alsop, long-standing Oppenheimer partisans. They implied that Gordon Gray's findings were part of a plot by AEC Chairman Strauss to even an old personal grudge against Oppenheimer, a point that conveniently overlooked the matter of Gray's record and integrity...
...midweek the Guatemalan government announced that it had captured documents and secret codes, and Interior Minister Augusto Charnaud MacDonald portentously declared: "A plot-one of the best-organized conspiracies in the history of the country-has been unearthed. Those arrested were the vanguard of forces based on foreign soil." The plot, whether real or fancied, was convenient, and it roused the regime's supporters to demands for action. The Communist chief of the peasants' union called on his followers to be ready to join a rural militia to shoot antiCommunists. And Communist Congressman César Montenegro Paniagua...
...Without a Horse. Lerner is more of a stickler for background than for plot. Because some of his finest locales are marred by modern improvements, he has assembled some 500 masking pieces: "You slap a proclamation over a Coca-Cola sign, cover light poles with trees, mask power lines with branches, introduce a coach-and-four and-whammo- you got a 17th century pastorale...
Three Coins in the Fountain (20th Century-Fox) is another CinemaScope travelogue-this time making a wide-screen tour through Italy. Completely dwarfed by spectacular shots of Venice, Tivoli and Rome is a feeble little plot about a trio of American girls who spend a tedious 102 minutes getting their men: Dorothy McGuire wins Novelist Clifton Webb (wearing a henna rinse); sultry Jean Peters gets a sure-enough Italian, Rossano Brazzi; Maggie McNamara captures Prince Charming in the person of Louis Jourdan. Why any of the six is so set on marrying any of the others is never satisfactorily explained...
...erstwhile mistress on her deathbed. Ravenstreet is eager to thank the three "magicians" for everything, but they have vanished into the thin upper air of Author Priestley's somewhat pixilated imagination. A deft master of pace, Priestley keeps his story interesting, long after all its preposterous plot lines have become tangents...