Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radish being watered in the picture to the right is one of many that have mysteriously sprouted in the lawn plot between Wigglesworth and Grays Halls-Beans, carrots, lettuce, squash, ginnlas, marigolds, and sunflowers are also growing, along with the grass that the University has recently sown...
...from great plays which has just begun with "King Lear." On this new recording, William Devlin, who played Lear with such distinction here this winter, trumpets the major speeches of the old but unwise King. Members of the Brattle Company read around him to give an inkling of the plot. You may wonder who "Poor Tom" is, or how Gloucester lost his eyes, for such details are unexplained, but Devlin's Lear is all-important. The other characters only guide the course of his catastrophe...
...longest stories are the worst. They deal with trite subjects: a paunchy middle-aged business man who goes to a costume party in a leopard skin, and a callow youth who seeks adventure in Parses at night. M. J. Arlen wrote both. His style is drab and plot punch is seriously lacking...
...Lift" recounts most obtusely the story of the Berlin airlift. It is a long pull, is my decision, for both audience and airmen. Briefly, this movie offers no surprises, tension, credible characters, credible plot, or creditable photography--only, in fact, a few nervous laughs drawn from the lines of the usually funnier Paul Douglas...
...good. The trouble all stems from the point (early in the picture) when the pitiable plot is poured over the documentary background like a thick, opaque syrup over pancakes. This movie succeeds in throwing part of the background into obscurity, and nearly all of the remainder into a particularly sticky context. Montgomery Clift and Douglas each find girl friends in Berlin. Clift, who has sensitive sympathetic channels, is overcome by the signs of the stricken city and is drawn to his girl to the extent of wishing to take her into Holy Matrimony. She, however, is simply deluding...