Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This, of course, is more or less a Gallic rehash of "Brief Encounter," a movie that was effective in its plain, believable, and studiously underplayed plot. "L'Affaire" on the other hand, relies on all sorts of accidents and coincidence to push along its story line, and is not believable at all. Both movies sell the same moral: adultery can be fun but there's no place like home. With a quick flick of its subtitles "L'Affaire" could just as easily prove the converse...
Each nation had its own plot, surmounted by its own flag. Altogether there were 4,715 graves, of which 4,410 held U.S. dead. Here & there among the crosses were the Jewish Star of David, the Turkish Star and Crescent...
...Plot requirements for the Holm type of play are simple. The theme is a love affair. In the first act the characters are presented, their differences explained; the second act produces their differences explained; the second act produces the favorites, the people the audience would like to see united; in the third act all complications are ironed out, the ends tied, and the lovers joined. Usually in this type of play there is a humorous twist carefully inserted, and in this case the ghost of a Revolutionary War soldier is the gimmick. Under his watchful...
...Council office, a "student committee on the public arts" meets at the witching hour of 5 o'clock, presumably to plot in darkness how to do what little a student committee can do to remedy the complicated situation represented by the fact that HARVARD STILL HAS NO THEATRE. J. David Bowen...
...said they kept demanding he confess to an alleged complicity with American citizens he never knew in an imaginary plot aimed at the assassination of Peron. "I told them I would rather die than admit to such a falsehood," he said...