Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Switch Thrown. In the train, those passengers who were not in on the plot became alarmed. Women tried to soothe screaming babies. A toothless old man jumped to his feet, staring wildly out the window. "You should have seen the coal smoke and soot from that locomotive," he said. "It came in the window two fingers thick...
...observed the process of Nationalist decline and collapse at first-hand in China in 1942-43 and 1945-46 and can testify it was not--repeat not--an American plot..." He has been very critical of Chiang regime for many years...
...observed the process of Nationalist decline and collapse at first-hand in China in 1942-43 and 1945-46 and can testify it was not--repeat not--an American plot..." He has been very critical of Chiang regime for many years...
...Kind of Woman (RKO) is a somewhat lumpy blend of slapstick comedy and dead-serious melodrama. Gambler Robert Mitchum, after being alternately wooed and walloped by gangsters, finds himself in an isolated Mexican resort trying to cope with a plot that defies analysis. While awaiting the arrival of the criminal mastermind (Raymond Burr), Mitchum patches up a newlyweds' quarrel; exchanges terse dialogue and melting looks with bosomy Jane Russell; plays straight man for Vincent Price, a hammy Hollywood star...
Party Going is shy of plot, even for plot-shy Henry Green. Seven bright young crumbs from the British upper crust set out for a holiday in France; they never get there. A dense fog anchors them to a London terminal-and four hours of each other's clabbering company. The rich and amiable sponsor of the party, Max Adey, wangles hotel rooms to wait in, and they go for each other, hammers & tongues...