Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...frequently danced in Raymonda when he was with Leningrad's Kirov Ballet, has staged the work for A.B.T. with such taste and delicacy that it is hard to tell where his choreography begins and Petipa's ends. In a valiant effort to make psychological sense of the plot, he has turned the scenes involving the Saracen and his court into a dream sequence-a wedding-bound maiden's erotic fantasy about a phantom lover. Beyond that, Nureyev has blessedly jettisoned narrative, so that for the most part his Raymonda is a two-hour experience in pure dance...
...Allen's stab at intellectual pretension. He teases love and death, duels and Dostoevsky, wars and warmongers. The movie opens with Boris in prison awaiting execution ("I go at 6 o'clock tomorrow morning. I was supposed to go at 5 but I have a smart lawyer.") The plot itself is only quaintly wacky. A series of mishaps culminates in an assasination attempt on Napoleon's life, a tiresome case of mistaken identities is thrown in, and Boris finally trails off behind the Angel of Death in a flap-happy parody of The Seventh Seal. Where Allen shines...
...TWENTIES musical can be a demanding genre. It usually requires the audience to accept a ridiculous plot, a troupe of two-dimensional characters, and a rapid succession of bad jokes. But it's worth making allowances for all these things. Not only do you get an occasional gem of a character and a few priceless one-liners, but thrown in with the prices of admission are the things that make the twenties musical one of the crown jewels of the American theater--songs and dances that transcend the plot breathe life into the characters, and float the audience into...
...plot is one of those casually outrageous frameworks a pith which all the essential trimmings can be hung--lots of love interest, sophisticated hero and heroine, comic minor roles with plenty of room for hamming it up. Our hero the dashing and debonair if lightly befuddled Jimmy Winter (John Witham), returns to his palatial Southampton estate with his new bride, an insufferably prim young woman named Constance (Innes-Fergus McDade). Unbeknownst to him, however, his mansion has been appropriated by a gang of enterprising bootleggers who have managed to charm their way into the good graces of "The Girls...
...struggle is brewing between the Oriental warlords, and the question on everyone's lips is "Will the guileful Toranaga try to become Shogun [military dictator]?" Does sukiyaki need soy sauce? Of course Blackthorne signs on as Toranaga's henchman, while still more rivalries congeal the already thickening plot: Buddhists v. Christians, Spaniards v. Portuguese, Franciscans v. Jesuits, Protestants v. Catholics. Author Clavell is an encyclopedic chronicler of Oriental lore (his bestselling Tai-Pan was set in Hong Kong), and he lubricates his massive research with regular doses of bloodshed. Readers who can suppress the urge to commit hara...