Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bitter irony of the day was that neither plane had been scheduled to land at Tenerife at all. Both had been headed for El Gando Airport in Las Palmas on Grand Canary Island some 50 miles away. In a plot twist that even Hollywood would have thought farfetched, a bomb had exploded in a vase in a flower shop at El Gando shortly before the planes were due to land there. Both were diverted to Tenerife-and had been cleared to resume their journeys when the fatal encounter occurred...
...enough of superficialities, you say, what about the book? I've already given away half the plot, and feel a tinge of guilt creeping around my shoulder as I type, so I won't tell you any more for the mere price of The Crimson. Without giving away that much, however, you might not read past the first five pages--I only made it to the crucial "I'm pregnant" scene because I was reviewing the damn thing...
Until that scene, for example, I wasn't even sure that Robert and Kate actually had made love. Before that point in the story, in fact, the issue was by no means crucial. The plot seemed to be mostly about the vague yearnings of summer love and the not-so-vague yearnings for a good clean fight down at the Yacht Club--the things of which a rich California boy's summer before college are made...
Goldwater aside, there is no question that crime can be traced to the highest levels in the state. Bolles' killer, a small-time hoodlum named John Adamson, turned state's evidence to avoid first-degree murder charges. He implicated a land developer and a plumber in the plot and said that the man who ordered the murder was Kemper Marley, 70, a cattle and liquor baron who looks as if he just stepped out of the pages of Zane Grey. Crusty and brusque, Marley has a reputation for getting what he wants any way he wants...
...production of Sunshine is the script itself. A satire, the play relies on neither serious characterizations nor precise singing and dancing but instead on the actors' ability to infinitely exaggerate their stereotyped parts. The cast is obviously having as much fun as the audience. The lyrics are witty, the plot cleverly stupid and the music fine, although the drums did sound a bit overdone during the overture...