Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CHARGES OF INTOLERANCE: Intolerant against whom? My only opponents are the Communists. Against them, the law prevails. But I have pardoned those who tried to kill me. Never has anybody who was in a plot to kill me been executed...
...York City suburbs far above the cost of a comparable residence in Denver or Seattle, and home buyers in Boston and San Francisco pay extra for the desirability of those cities. The current average price of a used, single-family house with four bedrooms on a half-acre plot of land in and around 16 major U.S. cities, in rising order of cost...
...died before he could finish his work, leaving a typescript in its formative stages that somehow found its way into a box of papers sent to the O'Neill collection at Yale. The play is far too long (O'Neill marked over half the original typescript for deletion), the plot is often contrived, and the characterizations are confused and inconsistent beyond credibility. The play involves the relationship between Simon, a merchant being destroyed by wealth and success, and the two women in his life--his mother (Deborah) and his wife (Sara). It almost goes without saying that both are possessive...
KATHY PLACZEK could not have altered the abrupt and implausible reversals in attitude that the three family members display. Nor could she have removed certain elements of the plot that seem ludicrous. For example, shortly after Deborah has resolved never to communicate with Simon again, considering him lost to his common Irish biddy, she is forced by financial hardship to ask his charity. She does so only after great deliberation, and then almost instantaneously decides to become a loving mother-in-law as well. This unnatural, almost absurd changes of heart towards Sara makes Deborah's subsequent rapport with...
...this savory cultural mess of lore and history "the Gumbo"-after the unique and varied Creole dish. But Reed's Gumbo is strongly metaphorical rather than explicitly edible, a sort of royal soul food manufactured at the Solid Gumbo Works by a black capitalist named Ed Yellings. The plot, full of violence, intrigue and high-speed travel, turns on whether the Gumbo Works will be controlled by LaBas' forces of good and healing magic (Gumbo can cure heroin addiction) or the perversion of the ancient mysteries led by the Louisiana Red Corp. and its sinister head, Blue Coal...