Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lincoln said he had no idea of resigning from the society: "I have some Irish in me, and this ought to be a damned good fight before it is over." In Washington, Senator Tobey called for a congressional investigation of the society, scented a sinister plot by organized medicine and big drug companies to deny the people the "benefits" of the Lincoln system...
Under George (Born Yesterday) Cukor's direction, Judy Holliday is still playing dumb Billie Dawn, while Newcomer Aldo Ray is just a nice husky guy with an even huskier voice. The plot reconciles them at the end on the questionable grounds that they have a way of life worth saving, but by that time the wordy script has divorced itself from its theme...
...from the Chinle school and is pursued by a friendly Government teacher and a Ute interpreter. After a protracted, melodramatic chase through colorful Arizona country, one of the men is injured on a steep canyon slope. At this point, the picture drops its real problem in favor of artificial plot: the boy abruptly reconciles himself to white civilization in a finish that is psychologically and sociologically lame. Independently produced on a shoestring ($100,000) by 29-year-old Actor Hall Bartlett (who also appears in the picture as the schoolteacher), Navajo was filmed on the Navajo Indian Reservation in northern...
...Johannesburg, and through the whole story of his agonies on learning that his sister is a prostitute and his son a murderer, and also in the collateral story of the sufferings of the English landowner whose son is killed, there is little relief to be found in the plot. In the novel this pathos is not oppressive because it is tinged with lyricism. The poignance of the story is enhanced and purified by the beautiful rolling prose in which it is written...
...fluoridation of water is part of a wide spread plot by subversives to take over the American government." This statement was unanimously indorsed by the Massachusetts Women's Political Club when the question of adding fluorine to Cambridge water was brought up at a recent meeting...