Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Forza had not been sung at the Met in eight years, and there were good reasons. Even among Italian operas, the plot is a wildly improbable one, and the whole opera runs for 3½ hours. Yet it has one of Verdi's fieriest scores, some of his most memorable arias, e.g., the soprano's Pace, Pace and the old Caruso-De Luca specialty, Solenne in Quest' Ora (Swear in This Hour). Director Bing, who has already restyled Verdi's Don Carlo, Aida and Rigoletto-and who wants "very much to have in this house...
Instead of roaming, most trailer dwellers settle down in parks, pay rents of $20 a month and up. For their money, they get water, electricity, laundry, and telephone service, a small plot of land, bathroom facilities, and access, in some parks, to such recreation facilities as swimming, tennis, shuffleboard or badminton...
Like most recent Italian novels, The Naked Streets is skimpy on plot, oversimple in characterization, but redeemed by a strong feeling for the fragile emotions of adolescence. Its true hero is the Santa Croce quarter, which Novelist Pratolini describes with the affectionate accuracy of a man remembering his childhood haunts. Symbol of common miseries and memories, Santa Croce binds the characters together until the troubles of growing up descend upon them, and meanwhile, declares Valerio wistfully, "we were glad to be friends...
...picture is a take off, on European intrigue at the close of the last century. The plot, hingeing on the daring double dupe, is complicated but clear. There is a fantastic fencing fiesta at the end, staged by Mason and Granger, both fencers of the old school. The gallant does not get the girl, an excellent theory of the new school. Greed and honor, love and duty, chivalry and chauvanism clash on the field of melodrama. Good wins, as it should, but then, bad doesn't loose. The villain escapes, as he should and there are several beautiful women whose...
...nicest thing about "The Wonderful Country," besides Lea's own illustrations, is that it's all plot and takes around four hours to read. If you can judge westerns by the usual criteria of literary excellence, then the book's worst flaw is that the reader frequently doesn't know who is killing whom, when, where, and why. Of course this might make little difference to the affilcionado, but I'm one and I like to know what is going...