Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dragon king, one of the world's last absolute monarchs, will probably need more than a raven to protect him. Shortly before his coronation, the Bhutanese announced that they had broken up a plot by Tibetan refugees to kill the King, burn the Tashichhodzong and take over the country for themselves. The plotters had apparently hoped to use Bhutan as a springboard to take back neighboring Tibet from the Chinese. The schemers allegedly included the beauteous Tibetan mistress of the late King Jigme Dorji Wangchuk, who died of a heart ailment at age 44 in 1972. Other plots...
...first Puerto Rican playwright. For writing Short Eyes (TIME, April 8), based on his experiences behind bars, Pinero walked away with this year's New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for the best American play. Last week, however, it seemed that Pinero might be germinating a new plot. Approaching a subway token booth in a downtown Manhattan station around 12:35 a.m., he was overtaken by a swarm of youths, who vaulted the token turnstiles and boarded a train. When the token seller cursed them as "Spanish trash," Pinero let loose with a few oaths...
...excesses of Miami style. It is pleasant enough idling through places like the Parrot Jungle, which features birds who roller-skate, and a nightclub for the aged, where a singer named Peppy Fields exhorts her audience to think young. The trouble is that there is a plot to be got over, and one that hangs heavily indeed...
Unfortunately, the movie's good intentions are undone by a script that gets bogged down in a needlessly overcomplex plot. What is good in the film is constantly lost in a tedious exposition. It is as if the movie's makers- including Lancaster, who functions as co-director - never recognized that what was truly worthwhile in their work was back ground, atmosphere and the social di agram of a town...
...before the horrified eyes of his Stuttgart Ballet Company, he left the troupe orphaned of its guiding spirit. Now the state and city fathers, whose liberal subsidies underwrite an international company that is one of Germany's most alluring cultural ornaments, have chosen American Choreographer Glen Tetley to plot new directions toward modern dance. Tetley does not take over as full-time director until autumn, but last weekend he premiered his ballet Gemini with his new company. Judging by the opening night ovations, Stuttgart is delighted with its choice...