Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...winter of 1956, the President and Fellows of Harvard College paid $33,000 for a pretty, grassy plot of land on the corner of Mt. Auburn and Plympton Streets, intending to build on it. But the building plans fizzled, and no new plan has emerged in the intervening 19 years; the 13,000 square-foot plot is still grassy, still pretty, and obscured enough so few people now know who owns...
...attorney insists that his client acted out of fear-presumably of Lynch -for his safety, and actually helped Bronfman during his confinement. Although the two suspects have been friends for about ten years, their defense strategies are now clearly in conflict. Neither has implicated anyone else in the plot...
...million soap followers, the fast and funny scenario may sound too good to be true. The average soap has a torturously slow plot so full of digression that weeks can go by before the heroine is forced to decide whether to paint her nails pink or red. Sex and violence only simmer; it can take years for marriage and divorce merely to be broached...
Style and hemline are more pertinent than they should be to Farewell, My Lovely because Director Dick Richards (Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins) seems mostly interested in matters of decoration. No use telling him or Screenwriter David Zelag Goodman that just under his plots, Chandler was writing about Los Angeles, about levels of corruption, about resistance to the hard sell and the strong arm. Those are difficult matters to deal with, and Richards and Goodman avoid them. Goodman wrests a standard mystery plot from the book that Chandler considered his best. Richards uses it as an excuse...
Died. Frederick Glidden, 67, better known by his pen name Luke Short, Illinois-born author of more than 50 hell-bent-for-leather Westerns, some of them later adapted into successful movies (Ramrod, Vengeance Valley, Blood on the Moon), all of them turned out with a plot formula he described as "writing myself into a corner, then writing my way out again"; of cancer; in Aspen, Colo...