Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to junta spokesmen, the plot called for "as many as possible" of the Greek navy's ten destroyers and seven submarines to rendezvous at the Aegean island of Syros. From there, an ultimatum would be issued to the junta in Athens: either restore democracy or face a blockade of Greece's two principal ports. Piraeus and Salonika...
...local communities in 1972, the idea was to spur local solutions to local problems. Some cities used the money to meet obvious, social needs: hospitals, sanitation facilities, public transportation. Others, like Atlanta, tried to divide the money among homeowners and landlords. A few country hamlets, suspecting some dastardly Washington plot either to curtail their liberties or buy their allegiance, have sent back their checks uncashed. None of these answers was quite right, though, for the residents of St. Louis County, a wealthy suburban area outside St. Louis. The county council has decided to spend most of the federal money...
Resonance and observation are what really matter here, not plot. Ozu excels at capturing the currents of tenderness and the differences caused by age and experience that flow, sometimes simultaneously, between parent and child. Watching the old man, slightly bleary with whisky, leer at the barmaid, his son says: "She doesn't look at all like mother." The old man smiles, a little sly, a little...
WHAT THERE IS of a main plot line is this: Tyrone Slothrop, Harvard, U.S. Army, is stationed in Britain in the late stages of World War II, working for Allied Intelligence. Slothrop, it turns out, is quite the ladies' man and has a map of London on his wall to keep good track of his romantic conquests. It further turns out that Slothrop's collection of females falls into precisely the same geographical distribution as the German bombs dropping on the city. Regular as clockwork, every sector inhabited by a Slothropian bedmate is shortly thereafter the recipient of a German...
Pynchon's novels are about interpretation, about making connections in a world of fragments. The novels are built out of too much plot and too many characters; they provide quantities of information far beyond anyone's desire to be informed. They are full of technical disquisitions of differential calculus, organic chemistry, the history of film, jazz and rock, dope and Freud, the Holy Grail, rockets, the Wizard of Oz -- all Pynchon metaphors for the twentieth century. It is not that he is groping for the one correct metaphor to one consistent reality. He is compiling as many metaphors...