Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about small towns. A rock in a field may look firm, but kick it over and you'll find all kinds of things crawling underneath. Too much sex? How can you write a novel about normal men and women, let alone abnormal ones, with no sex in the plot? We all had a mother and father! Even Tom Sawyer had a girl friend...
...splendidly theatrical. With a surface reminiscent of a Charlie Chaplin film, it offers long stretches which are at once amusing and profound. But there are other stretches which are quite dull. The trouble here seems to be that Beckett ventured on dangerous ground when he did away with a plot and made his characters into symbols rather than people. The mainspring of drama is conflict between very much living and three-dimensional people, even if they are confined to a stage. Beckett, however, expected to let his ideas carry most of the interest through the evening, but they...
...sense, the casting of Ballerina Beriosova as the female lead was more interesting than either plot or music, for it was further indication that she is the heiress presumptive to Margot Fonteyn as the company's prima ballerina. Born in Lithuania, Svetlana trained in New York and Paris, joined Sadler's Wells in 1950. With the retirement of Dancer Violetta Elvin (to marry for the third time), Beriosova stepped into more and more of Fonteyn's roles. More enthusiastically than ever, the critics applauded her lithe, leggy build, her cool, fluid movements, which are reminiscent...
...other respects, too, said Dr. Kupper, "Schnitzler's use of psychoanalytic concepts seems to exhibit the same progressions as Freud's scientific investigations." His early works, e.g., Paracelsus (1897), use hypnosis "as a comic and plot device to penetrate the realms of the unconscious." This was the period when Freud still hoped to put hypnosis to good medical use. Later plays, e.g., Intermezzo, Comedy of Seduction (1905, 1924), stress unconscious motivation of behavior not unlike Freud's Studies in Hysteria (1893). These, says Dr. Kupper, were followed by works involving concepts of resistance, transference and repression during...
...Girl Can't Help It (20th Century-Fox) marks the debut as a movie star of Jayne Mansfield, who has already achieved a tape measure's worth of fame through publicity stills. The plot is frankly built around the 23-year-old platinum blonde's physical proportions. A gangster who wants to marry Jayne has given an agent six weeks to build her up into a famous singer. The agent protests: "Rome wasn't built in a day." The gangster retorts: "She ain't Rome. She's built...