Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...home at Indian Lake, where there was no telephone, and studied astronomy for relaxation. He didn't enjoy all the figuring, and when he lay on his back in the yard at night, and watched the stars sailing over Ohio, he felt sorry for seagoing navigators who must plot their ships' position by means of platoons of figures...
...Metropolitan Opera, and "the first thing I knew, I was crying." She tore up her burlesque and designed a "serious" ballet, full of dramatic fire and intensity. In reducing Verdi's tortuously complicated, four-act opera to 52 minutes of dance, she "left out enough good music and plot to make three more ballets," but made the story of a gypsy out to avenge the burning of her mother compellingly clearer...
...Columbia) rates a B-plus for its efforts with a B-picture plot: the old one about the detective who bores from within a big-city racket to get the goods on the mystery man at the top. It is full of sluggings, shootings and characters with fake identities; the mastermind is the last anyone would suspect, and, at a venerably crucial moment in the final reel, the hero's girl falls into the villain's clutches...
Along the way, while their heroine sacrifices herself for others, Wald & Krasna sacrifice such able players as Agnes Moorehead, Joan Blondell, Richard Carlson, Everett Sloane and Cyril Cusack to the tear-stained demands of the plot. By the time a disenchanted moviegoer may have concluded that the long-suffering governess is getting just what she deserves, the producers tune up the heartstrings for a happy ending that is guaranteed to melt mascara...
...japes for London journalism, and was bent on pedaling away from his lower-middle-class origins as fast as the bicycle of English letters would carry him. Katherine was pedaling too-from her native New Zealand and an unhappy marriage. She had written her first short stories, the haunting, plot-shy evocations of children, moods and places that would eventually rank her close to Chekhov...