Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...head of the National Sales Executives organization, heard about this graveside elegy to the American traveling man, he rushed off to see Producer Stanley Kramer. Such a gloomy fadeout, Whitney argued, would horrify the peppy, up-to-the-minute salesman of today. Kramer would not tamper with the grim plot of his forthcoming film version of Death of a Salesman. But he offered a sop. Columbia would make a special ten-minute short for Whitney's organization, showing that salesmen these days are not like Willy Loman at all, but happy, well-trained technicians who are a valuable natural...
There is no plot complication; if the play had to rely simply on its plot, it would probably fall flat on its face. It is rather a situation, simply stated, and then exploited. Briefly it deals with a woman who has met the man she is in love with before--in 15 other lives. When she finally sees him in her present life, he remembers none of their former relationship and is unprepared for her sudden declaration of love. He doesn't believe in reincarnation, but she tries to lure him into marriage nonetheless...
...three-week stand after a successful year on Broadway, is, if anything, a testament to the enormous emotional capacity of Tennessee Williams. It is a throbbing, sensuous drama, completely absorbed with the ecstasy of life and of living; unfortunately, however, this is not a theme conducive to a coherent plot or sensible dialogue...
...will get a coveted role in the Met's new, English-language production of Mozart's Cosí Fan Tutte, as Despina the maid, who decoys her mistresses into affairs with two rich Albanians, masquerades as a quack physician, and generally moves the whole plot around...
Some Lowell House amateur sleuths were inclined to doubt that the bullet indicated a careful plot to eliminate Wright. "The .300 bullet is commonly used in high-powered elephant rifles...