Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Family Plot. A pleasant enough film, as long as one isn't expecting too much. It's the bourgeois thieves vs. the working class thieves, and our sympathies range themselves accordingly. A couple of good moments, but basically you get the feeling that Hitchcock just doesn't care that much anymore...
That is all the plot there is. Brooks assumes that all he needs is a premise, and he may be right. The movie is a se ries of set pieces for Mel and the boys...
...reader today finds it hard to see what seized the imagination of the country in Wilson's earnest novel of postwar listlessness. The prose is bland. The plot devices are those of what used to be called women's magazine fiction. Will Betsy forgive Tom for fathering an illegitimate child in Italy during World War II? Yes. Will a dishonest caretaker succeed in cheating Tom and Betsy out of an inheritance...
...everything aboard the ship is archaic: on windless days, the steel-hulled Eagle, built in 1936, vibrates with the hum of her 728-h.p. diesel engine. Power winches, not able-bodied seamen, crank the windlass to hoist anchor. In the communications shack, the latest electronic gear helps plot the ship's position. On the foremast, a slowly rotating radar scanner keeps an electronic...
...York Mayor David Matthews was involved in an even more serious plot. Arrested on June 22 and accused of "dangerous designs and treasonable conspiracies against the rights and liberties of the United States of America," Matthews admitted that he had received more than ?100 from Tory Governor William Tryon, at Tryon's headquarters aboard the transport Duchess of Gordon, mostly for the purchase of guns to arm Tory sympathizers...