Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plot to oust Romero was hatched about six months ago by a cadre of liberal army officers organized as a "council of military youth." They were assisted by reformist academics of the Jesuit-run University of Central America Jose Simeon Canas. Inspired by the success of Nicaragua's revolution, both groups were convinced that the only way to prevent all-out "class warfare" was to end the corrupt military regime and, as an intellectual who helped plan Romero's ouster explained last week, overhaul the country's "antiquated economic, social and political structures...
...sparse plot, downright anemic; yet O'Morrison fleshes it out with the wondrous detail of bygone commonplaces. In this household, light comes from kerosene, refrigeration from an iceman, fruits and vegetables are preserved and the tele phone and vacuum cleaner are wild rumors. It is a simpler world but not a qui eter one. The women fuss and explode over trifles, then sing together in tranquilizing harmony...
Today such a plot would be laughed out of town, unless, of course, it was called The Mickey Rooney Story. That is precisely what it is, and Mickey's success in Broadway's new hit, Sugar Babies, that happy send-off to burlesque, may very well boost his career back into orbit. Rarely has so much energy been packed into so small a package. Rooney dances, he sings, he mugs, he dresses in drag. Even when he's offstage, he's on, and his raucous laugh can be heard from the wings. "Seldom does a person...
...simple plot, by all accounts, about "a witch who wanted to be human and the gal he witched who weren't true." But, as the good Lord says, those who know not of what they speak should shut the hell up. Who, after all, are these men, Howard Richardson and William Berney, who pervert morality onto a framework that cannot stand its weight? It's an exhausted tale of witches and lovers and hillbillies, a sinnin' and a rollin' in the hay and a borin' you to tears. And you the congregation knows what will happen and have no reason...
...Dark of the Moon's characters are hollow, the stage atmosphere compensates and redeems Music director David L. Reiffel, however, has turned an already obvious plot into a play that has the subtlety of a bulldozer. You know when somebody says something prophetic (thunder claps in the background) and you know when the witches are coming (bizarre piano medleys screech behind the gauze curtains). The best musicians, meanwhile--banjo and fiddle players Thornton Lewis and Matthew Brown--make one stage appearance and, sad to say, disappear...