Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Patiently, month after month, the FBI had been trying to untangle the all-but-invisible skeins of plot and counterplot by which Russia had stolen U.S. atomic secrets. The pursuit of Britain's Dr. Klaus Fuchs, physicist and traitor, started the process. After his arrest, it took 3½ months of painful toil before U.S. agents worked their way back along his trail to Harry Gold, the Philadelphia chemist. After that, the untangling progressed quickly. Last week, 23 days after catching Gold, the FBI picked up two of his confederates...
Your issue of Wednesday, June 7, reprinting my broadcast with Bill Slater on the subject of education, together with your editorial comment, floated down to the foothills of the Berkshires, where I am currently engaged in a plot to take over American education. The issue interrupted me in the middle of plans that called for replacement of Mr. Conant with Gerald L. K. Smith...
...story is essentially one of a love triangle, unembellished by sociological, patriotic, or religious overtones. Played straight as it is, this makes for an un muddied plot. But the actors are not always able to take advantage of their necessary importance in such a movie; they could have excelled, instead they sometimes fail even to sustain an average level of competence at the art. Overplaying of scenes is not infrequent, and always noticeable...
Against the sordid backgrounds of an anonymous big U.S. city, the film deftly introduces its main characters one by one, starts to develop them with quick strokes while linking them together into the burglary plot. It gives a fascinating account of Jaffe's precise planning to burrow underground into a jewelry store at night, and his businesslike recruitment of personnel for the job. With very little dialogue, it pictures the jewel theft in a long, intimately detailed sequence of torturing suspense. Then a doublecross explodes the mastermind's plan...
...Niven (Duel in the Sun) Busch, The Capture is told in a series of flashbacks that explain too much about Lew Ayres and not enough about the rest of the cast. Despite some good photography, a stark Mexican background, and a fine feeling for place and incident, the indecisive plot suffers from the same fuzziness that clutters up the dialogue...