Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that suddenly famous pinpoint on the earth, the men who lead the three great Western democracies came together last week with their retinues of Foreign Ministers, advisers, specialists and secret service guards. Ostensibly they met to box compasses and plot new directions before proceeding farther on that treacherous and often discouraging voyage, the quest for true peace with Russia. Actually they met-in the first full-dress conference of leaders of allied governments since Potsdam-not because they had dramatic new plans but because one of them, stout and determined old Winston Churchill, wanted a conference...
...another worthy competitor for TV dramatic honors, is handsomely produced, well-cast and ambitiously directed. The TV Hour's only apparent handicap is a lack of good scripts. Last week's Brandenburg Gate dealt familiarly with the cold war in beleaguered Berlin, and the plot leaned heavily on devices borrowed from Carol Reed films and Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities. Jack Palance was effective as the present-day Sydney Carton who gives his life to free Maria Riva's husband from a Communist death cell...
...strange behavior of the Salem girls goaded the town authorities to action. On March 1, 1692, Tituba and two other rather disreputable women of the neighborhood were brought to trial as witches. Surprisingly enough, Tituba readily admitted her guilt and identified the other defendants as co-conspirators in a plot to bewitch the devout Puritan community. Apparently enjoying the limelight into which she had been so unexpectedly cast, she called upon her exotic imagination to supply the judges with new tales of mystery. She told of elaborate witches' convocations which she herself had attended and gave the astonished courtroom...
...beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn"-Debussy, singlehanded, set about creating a new anti-Wagnerian style. The result was the only opera he ever finished, Pelléas et Mélisande. Based on the play by Maurice Maeterlinck, it had a shadowy, once-upon-a-time plot that actually bore a genteel resemblance to Wagner's Tristan und Isolde...
...Between, the heroine is tooling down the road to Nowhere so fast that the audience can hardly read the signposts of the plot. She is a young Englishwoman (Claire Bloom) who goes to Berlin, 1953, for a visit with her brother (Geoffrey Toone), an officer in the British occupation force. Almost at once she senses dark, hurrying shapes in the outwardly placid life of her sister-in-law (Hildegarde Neff), and soon curiosity tempts her to take a plunge into the shadowy mystery...