Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sheets in the Windows. Wearing a pistol with his sport jacket and slacks, the Strong Man took command over a 77-minute revolution. All around the island, members of the plot grabbed control of garrisons, naval bases, radio stations and communication centers. At the palace, Prio had time to issue a communiqué calling on "all Cubans to resist jointly with the President." At one point a car raced, guns firing, toward the palace gate; two guards were killed and seven wounded in an exchange of shots. Shortly afterwards, the gate opened and a limousine bore Prio away...
...plot is simply incredible--something about a girl aerialist who, when spurned by her sawdust impressario for a sick hippo, falls head over heels in love with a daring young man who falls head over heels off his 60 foot trapeze and does a triple somersault into the hospital...
Truman Capote's stage adaptation of his novel, The Grass Harp, is a curious fusion of poetic sensitivity and imperfect theatrical technique. Clearly, Mr. Capote was hampered at the outset by the limited number of ways in which one can write a play. He had a quixotic plot and a tragic theme to work with, and inexplicably be chose straight comedy for his dramatic medium. Regrettably his continual resort to stock comic artifices detracts greatly from the important thematic development of the play...
Barbara O'Neil is an exceptionally attractive woman of forty at the start. But as her allure becomes less important to the plot, her role changes too. Her costumes also become noticetably less flattering...
...recollections of his stay in Alaska to paint some intriguing characters killing time in a quick-lunch room. But Harvey never really ekes a story out of it. Even one of the most interesting characters, a drunk named Bearpaw, whose hands are just fleshy stumps, never gets into the plot. The author leaves him outside the lunchroom, pounding in the window to get in. Quotation marks, used in other stories, would have helped "Juke Box" a great deal...