Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...belt where the system is not yet in operation. Areas on both sides of the border are rigidly policed. Airmen planning to fly in them must file a flight plan; failure to do so is punishable by a $10,000 fine and a year's imprisonment. Radar stations plot the flight to make sure an expected plane is no more than five minutes off schedule or 20 miles off course. If an aircraft is not identified within three minutes, R.C.A.F. (or U.S.A.F.) fighters streak skyward...
...film is a field day for Actor Guinness, who manages to combine jaunty evildoing with an outward show of probity and decorum. His broaching of his plot to Stanley Holloway, a manufacturer with the soul of an artist, is a masterpiece of delicate suggestion without a single incriminating word spoken. With Holloway safely in his pocket, Guinness displays equal ingenuity in recruiting two mobsters to handle the messier details of his plan...
...Fledermaus," with its 18th Century plot, 19th Century music, and 20th Century libretto, has come to Boston again, and despite its second-string cast it is as effervescent as ever. The Metropolitan Opera Association's money-making venture pleased (and shocked) the large opening night crowd with lilting tunes and broad humor seldom presented on the operatic stage...
...three could use a little tightening. As the plot thickens, it sickens, and only the irrepressible antics of Jack Gilford keep the whole thing from falling apart. Gilford is one of the funniest clowns to appear in Boston for a long time. Sliding down stairs, mimicking the orchestra, and pulling bottles out of a tuba's bell, he completely dominates the final...
Howard Dietz and Garson Kanin did not even try to follow the original text in their new English version. Using the fantastic plot as a framework, they packed both the dialogue and songs with as many jokes, double entendres, and Ogden Nashian rhymes as possible. Combining sex, satire, and slapstick, Dietz and Kanin have produced a vehicle which should become one of the most popular items on the Metropolitan's repertoire, despite its dubious artistic significance...