Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Barrier, they found, packed both plot and punch. The only question was whether the story, in being supercharged up from poem size, hadn't been punched entirely too much for successful music-drama...
Composer Meyerowitz had done his best to keep up with the fast-moving plot. The singers, particularly little Negro Soprano Muriel (Carmen Jones) Rahn, who played the part of the housekeeper, did their best with the difficult intervals in his arias. But for most of the evening, the best the Stravinsky-model music achieved was the role of a first-class sound-track accompaniment. Poet Hughes's story could always manage without the music; but the music, for all the exciting quality that Composer Meyerowitz had given it, needed company...
...hardly changed, Lincoln, the last of its 1950 models. Henry Ford confidently expected his company would have its biggest year ever, said he planned to step up production 20% to 5,000 passenger cars a day during April, May and June. To expand further, he bought a 200-acre plot in Cleveland last week on which to build an $80 million engine plant and foundry...
...course of Kaye's antic fun with this plot, he makes an entrance with his head on a platter, gorges himself in fast motion at a feast, keeps a roomful of conspirators hidden from one another, tugs frantically at a sword that refuses to come out of its scabbard...
...Lady Takes a Sailor (Warner) pursues its laughs with the single-mindedness of a determined practical joker. A low-comedy farce about sedate professional people, it douses the characters with paint, runs them down with trick automobiles, and sticks them with pitchforks. The plot maneuvers Jane Wyman, director of a consumers' research institute, into Dennis Morgan's top-secret navy sea tractor. Jane's reputation in her job depends on proving that she was actually underseas with Morgan, Morgan's on suppressing the film she shot in his craft. Most of the gags are pretty thin...