Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government, alarmed by the angry murmuring in America del Norte, hurriedly invited four U.S. housewives to travel south, all expenses paid, to see for themselves the real cause of the trouble-scarcity caused by drought, frost and underplanting by Brazilian farmers. A spokesman from Colombia talked darkly of a plot by the "tea interests," and one from El Salvador advised the U.S. to quit demanding nickel coffee until it resumed making $1,000 automobiles...
...steely core of a seasoned revolutionist) has earned him the nickname Cica (uncle). He joined the Communist Party in 1920, founded the newspaper Borba, which remains the mouthpiece of Yugoslav Communism today. Most of the years between World Wars I and II he spent in jail, continuing there to plot, teach and organize (Tito was one of his pupils). Mosa Pijade was on Tito's military staff in the struggle against Hitler, was elected a Politburo member last year, and is considered to be Yugoslav Communism's finest orator...
...plot has an immense sallowness, exceeded only by the banality of much of the dialogue. And yet authors Sidney Gilliat and Leslie Bailey rise sometimes to Gilbertian heights of whimsy. ("My dear," coss Gilbert to his wife, "how does it feel to be married to a transcendent genius?") Beginning with their Trial By Jury success and ending with Gilbert's elevation to knighthood after Sullivan's death, the film neatly skirts the high points of the duo's joint career. Instead, it brings to bear the full force of superficial analysis on the dissension that had them taking bows from...
...novel contest. Regional devotion comes naturally to Esther Forbes, daughter of a pre-Revolutionary Massachusetts clan, one of whose 17th-century members died in jail while awaiting trial for witchcraft. There is little witchcraft, unfortunately, in Author Forbes's latest novel, Rainbow on the Road, and the plot is frugal even by Yankee standards. A solid fog of research muffles her characters, but whenever it lifts for a page or two, the sights and sounds of the New England countryside around 1830 come through in a kind of pastoral tone poem...
Based on an actual incident in California where a motorcycle club nearly wrecked a small city, the plot warms up with good-natured pranks, shifts to drunken brawls, and then speeds to an open clash between the irate residents and the invading cyclists...