Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Financially Herter is far behind Dever. Neither he nor the Republican State Committee can afford the lavish posters and full-page newspaper advertisements Dever is using. So far, Herter has managed to counter with slushy soap-box radio commercials on local stations. The commercials have a simple plot: a wife complains to her husband about corruption in the state administration, wails "why did I vote for him in 1950," and together husband and wife sobbingly declare they will "vote this time for Chris Herter...
...tape of romance and pretension from the Spanish civil war, The Revenge for Love so stung drawing-room leftists that the book was boycotted with silence in Britain, not even published in the U.S. Read with the hindsight of 1952, the novel remains a remarkable political satire, one whose plot now ranks as prophecy and whose story blends into history...
Mauldin's pen & ink infantrymen from Stars & Stripes were a biting commentary on the long-suffering dogfaces of World War II. By surrounding Willie and Joe with a threadbare plot and substituting slapstick for the original's realism, Back at the Front succeeds in making Willie and Joe look more like two-dimensional comic-strip characters than they ever have before...
...Tree Grows in Brooklyn plants itself in a plot of swampland--Betty Smith's tearfully sentimental novel. And despite its fanciful ballets, splashing sets, and a few bright tunes, the watery plot and croaky-throated principals make certain that this tree never blooms...
Stuck to the story of Johnny Nolen, the well-meaning, irresponsible husband, and his unsuccessful attempts to give up a happy-go-lucky life of gin colored fantasy, all the gaiety of the musical bogs down. Even the humorous sub-plot of Johnny's sister-in-law, Cissy, constantly spliced with Nolen tragedy, seems out of place...