Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carefully controlled gestures of easing up: 1) an amnesty, signed by Voroshilov, for short-term prisoners; 2) foreigners held in Soviet prisons on espionage counts were released; 3) retail prices were reduced on 125 categories of consumer goods; 4) the Ministry of Internal Affairs announced that the doctors' plot was a frame-up, freed the doctors who had been unjustly tortured; 5) a year-long purge in Georgia was ended with the appointment of a new Premier and new party secretaries; 6) the Communists in Korea announced that they were ready to make important concessions to get a truce...
...jury of farmers in the town of Moulins heard Pierre tell how his victim was "no good for our farm ... He ate too much and worked too little." They were very understanding when it came to the verdict: ten years for mother Louise, as the brain of the plot, seven for Pierre for doing the shooting, and five years for poor, simple-minded Marie-Helene...
...obviously enjoying their slightly bawdy roles. The score, with its occasional tang of dissonance and its shifting harmonies, sounded like slightly clouded Prokofiev, contained some lively ensemble passages and as large a share of waltzes as Rosenkavalier. If few listeners were carried away, it may have been because the plot of Ben Jonson's old comedy seemed pretty far removed from 1953 Manhattan, or perhaps because the music dropped its best tunes before they were fairly started...
...Something to Remember You By, Louisiana Hayride, Dancing in the Dark, the last being a lift from the original Band Wagon, a Broadway musical that starred Astaire and his sister Adele in 1931. In other respects the new musical has nothing to do with the old. Its casual plot describes the attempt of an oldtime Hollywood hoofer to get a foot back on Broadway as the partner of a temperamental ballerina. The show they are rehearsing is a sort of boogie Faust, and there is the devil to pay in the form of an overemotional producer (Jack Buchanan). Also...
...plot is one of those farfetched todos about a wife (Jane Wyman) who discovers that her husband (Ray Milland) has been playfully running around Manhattan with a specialist in tribal-ritual puberty dances (Valerie Bettis) when he was supposed to have been in Chicago on business. In retaliation, she invents a romance of her own. This leads to divorce proceedings. The trio becomes a foursome when a rich square (Aldo Ray) from the Klondike stakes out a romantic claim on Jane during the interlocutory period of the divorce. All in all, Let's Do It Again strains too hard...