Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plot," the cops decided, was obviously directed at President Juan Domingo Perón, who was even then embarking with his wife on an excursion up the Paraná River for some ceremonies in connection with the Year of San Martin. Police cutters were hastily ordered out, with machine guns at the ready, to escort the presidential yacht. Police jeeps raced along the banks of the river spotting "intriguers." At the ceremony itself, the President could hardly be seen for the swarm of blue-uniformed police who surrounded...
Logan has interpreted Chekhov rather than writing a "New American Play" as the program mentions. Logan has helped the original plot only by contributing an American setting; all other changes he has made injure the play. Most obvious of his mutilations is the overdrawing of characters; in "The Wisteria Trees" he has replaced Chekhov's people with carieatures, exaggerated types which are often difficult to accept...
Most offensive of all the characters is an American reporter played by Paul Kelly. This man rushes hell bent for leather through the plot infecting people with 100 percent Americanisms. His sentiments are admirable but I couldn't help wondering why he never got in trouble through his spouting them behind the Iron Curtain with such abandon. Every few minutes the Colonel's party line would prove embarrassingly illogical before the blasts of the reporter...
...movie, "Guilty of Treason" is badly acted, confusing, and overly melodramatic. As an account of Cardinal Mindszenty's trial, one can only wonder why the scriptwriters had to bury it under so much superfluous and undocumented plot...
...their wealth, Doña María's family owned no suitable cemetery plot in Buenos Aires, and were forced to borrow a vault temporarily. Last week they were still looking for a permanent resting place...