Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...psychological aspects of a love triangle involving a psychiatrist, his wife, and his lover. The effort to trace the disintegration of his marriage and his personality through a long series of flashbacks produces fine acting and dialogue; it is weakened by the instruction of melodramatic necessities of the plot...
...Cambridge Board of Appeal Monday turned down a petition of the Arlington-Belmont-Cambridge Realty Corporation to use a plot of land on the Concord turnpike for an outdoor theatre...
...congregation: the past year has shown a 100% increase in attendance of young adults, and church attendance has increased 25%. Besides their tithes and contributions, Shelby County farmers cooperatively grew $1,100 worth of soybeans for the church last year on a 42-acre plot of rented land...
...which a son's affectionate reminiscence of his jockey-father subtly reveals the old man as a heel. With no subtlety at all, the movie uses the original's French and Italian backgrounds to give a thin illusion of novelty to a spavined horse-racing plot. There are also a few twists that owe less to Hemingway than to successful prizefight films from The Champ to Champion...
...moral: "We are all innocent." Tacked on to an arbitrary, symbol-burdened plot, Author Flaiano's cheerful conclusion will probably not convince even determined existentialists...