Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Faded Waltzes. The plot takes Macheath through a fake marriage with pretty Polly Peachum, two betrayals by one of his earlier loves, and right up to the moment of his execution-when he is saved by a royal pardon. Beaten into the mixture of bawdry and cynicism are a couple of bitter speeches of social protest, written in a heavy Teutonic style that even Blitzstein's tart translation could not leaven...
...Communist Party Boss Palmiro Togliatti, once editor of the paper and still its ultimate authority as well as its biggest shareholder. When Togliatti himself has not yet had the word from Moscow L'Unità is forced to wait, as it did when the "doctors' plot" exploded in Moscow and L'Unità came out with the story a day after the other Italian papers...
...Lumbard's Senior Spring is a novel with one saving grace: its ability to treat with considerable maturity that sorely bandied subject, young love. Its plot and all but one of its characters are ill-defined; its attempt to paint the everyday life of a far-western college fraternity is far from satisfying; and sometimes the writing approaches the abysmal. Yet because of its single redeeming feature, it is an interesting and promising first novel...
Oberon's plot: to regain his wife, Oberon, King of the Elves, scours the earth to find a faithful couple. He finds a brave knight and his beloved who are shipwrecked escaping from Bagdad; she is captured by pirates, pursued by a sultan, rescued by her knight, and finally blessed by Charlemagne. Oberon, of course, turns up at every crucial moment to rescue his charges...
...such a flimsy plot, Lehmann drapes a super production involving 160-odd voices, 13 changes of scene, 94 stage hands, 37 electricians and some 100 supers. There is a showgirl chorus line, and eight special ballets. Flowery perfumes, concocted to match Weber's music, waft through the theater. In Act II there are no fewer than nine women suspended on nearly invisible wires above the staga ("They reminded me of airplanes waiting to land," said one reviewer...