Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cable TV hook-up is 50? extra); the fee includes use of the tennis courts, saunas and gym. The 30-ft.-by-60-ft. lots can be bought, condominium style, for $7,000 ($14,000 for waterfront lots). Owners are assured of use of their plot when they want it and can divide rental income with the management at other times...
...those who just come for a short time. You meet and make friends. It's the best recreation in the world." It can also be a long-term investment. "I want to retire up here," says Larry Mattei, an oil engineer from Houma, La., who has bought a plot. "And if I don't keep it, I can always sell it, probably at a profit...
...Odessa project will start next fall. Every day, 250 tons of garbage, 20 cu. yds. of sludge, and up to 500,000 gal. of sewage water will be sent to a 640-acre plot that one rancher has donated to the experiment. Other landowners are anxious to follow suit. Indeed, says Jack Dillard, director of Odessa's utilities department, "we may have some fights over people wanting to have city garbage dumped on their land-a new kind of range...
Cukor juggles stock character types and familiar plot complications with playful expertise. Henry and Augusta, along with her lover Wordsworth, a fortune-telling black African, wind up on a mock spy adventure on the Orient Express as Augusta delivers an illegal $100,000 ranson to Visconti (her wildly romantic first lover) held captive in Africa. Fortified by the belief that love conquers all, Aunt Augusta cajoles, lies, steals, blackmails, and is deported in the course of her mission. When she finally does deliver the ransom, she collapses hysterically in her now aged lover's arms only to find that...
...Alcott's works then, strictly in the context of childhood and safety, make a dispassionate return to her work difficult. If you reread them with any other purpose than to find a safe passage back to a neutral world, you are disappointed. A serious re-reading usually finds the plot as soppy as Love Story and the once beloved characters about as interesting as Pollyanna...