Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...magazine of political opinion, The Freeman has changed considerably during the past nineteen months. In its first issues this fortnightly right-wing organ had acted like a drunken paper-hanger, slapping "bloody red" labels on everyone in sight. The original Freeman saw modern art as a Communist plot to accelerate capitalist collapse, said there was non-Communist Left, described America's European allies as "unrecognizably neurotic" and disloyal. But this week Editor John Chamberlin sent a "Newest Freeman" to fifty university cities. It sports a glossy cover and four full page ads--but what is more important, The Freeman...
...introduction to the movie script of Orpheus, Jean Cocteau says, "in this film there is neither symbol nor thesis... It is a realistic film which, through the camera, puts into the work more truth than truth; that truth which Goethe contrasts to reality." As the title hints, the plot--if one can say there is one--draws from the Orpheus and Eurydice myth. Cocteau, however, skillfully shrouds this legend with the story of a poet's struggle to become immortal...
...great dramatic moments in literature occurs when Robinson Crusoe, walking the sands of his supposedly uninhabited island, is "exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore." What gives this episode its magnificence is not its mechanical "plot value" but its power to set the reader's imagination flaring like a torch. Even while his startled intellect searches this way and that for an explanation of the footprint, his anxious heart is oppressed with forebodings as to what the footprint may mean for Crusoe...
...trees of Northern California. Tall (thanks to nature) and dark (thanks to fuzzy photography), these plants have an air of dogged determination and ven group solidarity. The film's live cast does its best to emulate the trees by wooden acting and an old saw of a plot. But the humans come off second best in this saga of lumberjacks versus homesteaders in the wilds of Olde Californee...
...film's plot centers on the efforts of editor Jim Austin (John Forsythe) to clean-up his mythical home town of Kennington. Austin stumbles onto the workings of an interstate gambling syndicate almost accidentally and is drawn into a web of fear and violence as he uncovers details of its operations. Excellent directive touches, like the sudden shift from the scream of a dying man to a blaring horn at the Country Club dance, symbolize Austin's transition from naive upper-middler to a hunted animal. And as his investigation gets nearer the truth, Captive City illustrates just how police...