Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...marvelous romp begins when dignified Joe Raposo strolls to the piano and then bounces, rumbles, and tickles his way through some very pleasant music. As soon as the curtain rises, however, the boys take over, their ebulient spirit chanelled into a properly farcical plot. Mrs. Leroy St. Clair of the 1920 Oyster Bay Set (those were the days and the people) is making the final arrangements for her blonde, blue-eyed, and fashionably flat daughter's coming out party. Daughter is none too happy about it all as she has a poor but noble lover. Widow St. Clair is, herself...
...plot advances with what at first seems blissful naivete, but the dependable simplicity and expectability of nearly everything soon becomes a pleasant, quiet part of Wee Geordie's world. Geordie is painfully tiny as a bright young lad. He enrolls in Mr. Samson's Home Bodybuilding Course. When next seen, at the age of twenty-one, he is a well-built tower, about six and one-half feet high. He wins the hammer throw in the Olympics, and then promptly renounces athletics to return to his highland lass, and to resume the idyllic life as the Laird's head gamekeeper...
Painting an unmelting, bleak, cynical portrait of the road to prostitution, the plot involves a girl whose mother was early gotten with child and was left by her lover to a life of menial toil. The mother wants her child to have a "better life," ease and riches, etc. She sets her buxom daughter up as an artist's model with hopes that she will make "connections." The daughter is picked up by a chauffeur on his day off and has a very earnest affair with him, finally becoming engaged. While he is out of town, a fellow-model persuades...
...plot is too complex to summarize; and this is just one of the ambiguous processions of events on which 'responsibility' casts no light. Complicity, then, is the shared fact with which the authors criticize the idea of responsibility...
WASHINGTON, March 14--The government moved swiftly today--with a grand jury investigation--in the case of Jimmy Hoffa, Teamsters Union bigshot accused of a plot to plant a spy in the midst of the Senate's racket probers...