Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brombergers, bringing to Premier Guy Mollet "on a silver platter the long-awaited occasion for intervention in Egypt." One interesting statement by the Brombergers that might salve some British consciences: until just before the Anglo-French ultimatum in Egypt, only Eden and Queen Elizabeth were privy to the plot. On Oct. 16, at the famous Paris meeting of Eden and Mollet, "Operation Mousquetaire" was decided on, but not until the French had reluctantly agreed to accept Eden's "embarrassing judicial fiction that the intervention was aimed at separating the belligerents and protecting the Canal...
...picture's plot is as simple as a skid. A lush (Salyer) lands on The Street from nowhere in particular, blows his last buck on the booze, sells his second pair of pants to buy some more, passes out on the sidewalk, wakes up to find his suitcase stolen, takes a day's work as a crate hustler, tries to straighten himself out at the Bowery Mission but just can't stand the quiet and runs out for a quick one. That night he gets sapped and rolled in a back street, and the next morning decides...
...shabby comfort of a Greenwich Village house that is acrawl with Siamese cats and intellectual gentility. What Miranda Page would call a "relationship" seems impossible between two people so alien to each other. But as a veteran of suspense fiction (The Mask of Alexander), Author Albrand keeps the plot from collapsing. Booth inexorably moves in on Miranda with hammer locks of misunderstanding. In her politeness he manages to see incipient love, and in his calculated humility she is foolish enough to see kindness...
...sure, all worthwhile plays from any period embody ideas, but writers like Brecht and Genet seem to start not with characters caught in a human predicament but with abstractions such as, in Brecht's case, the evils of capitalism. They then proceed to illustrate their philosophy with a plot and characters chosen on the basis of utility to the ideas under discussion...
That the Pirates of Penzance still manages to be generally entertaining is a tribute to Gilbert and Sullivan and some enthusiastic cast members, prodded along by excellent music direction and choreography. The plot itself moves along pretty jauntily, becoming seat-squirmingly slow in a few patches when the dialogue or the sentiment gets to be too much...