Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact, as Fair Dealing a group as Americans for Democratic Action has tallied what they think his "right" votes against his "wrong" ones; and he has a whopping liberal average. But Kennedy is running against Senator Lodge, and the Old Guard considers Lodge the arch-conspirator in the plot to liberalize the Republican party under General Eisenhower...
There has been a noticeable lack of meat in the recent chop suey served up by the Central Kitchen. Whether this has been an oversight, an economy measure, or a deliberate plot by a vegetarian chef, it must be rectified. Harvard houses used to serve the best chop suey this aide of Yee Hung Gooey's magnificent restaurant on Oxford Street. But this reputation is sure to vanish if meatless chop suey becomes official policy...
...latest release, J. Arthur Rank has chosen a murderer and a little boy as the core of a touching melodrama with such a combination, the plot can easily decline into a painful concentration on psychological torture and an overly sentimental treatment of the child. The director, however, consciously avoided these pitfalls almost to the extent of robbing the film of speed and realistic emotion. Most of the time, the man and boy are escaping through tortuous fields and swamps, continuously avoided shepherds, bicyclers, and campers. The boy, Jon Whitely, fortunately saves this scene from being exasperating and boring. He doesn...
...when the child becomes ill. This growing friendship forms the principal, and most interesting part of the movie. The meeting with his adulterous wife and a chase without gunshots are genuinely exciting and well photographed. But one can readily see the exploited limitations of this familiar British cinema plot, although Rank has exploited it with greater restraint and better actors than other producers...
Examination schedules are complicated, requiring much human and electronic energy to plot. Yet the Registrar's office has personnel and IBM machines in abundance, as well as four months to banish Fogg. We can only hope that all these assets will be put to good...