Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meet the high cost of justice, the defense team has a salaried staff of 25, who raise funds, do legal research, plot courtroom strategy, type, prepare press releases and copy documents. "We open the office at 6 a.m.," says Head Fund Raiser Stanley Sheinbaum, an economist formerly of the Santa Barbara Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. Actually, three persons have normally been working all night duplicating, collating, indexing and distributing copies of the previous day's trial transcript, exhibits and memos...
...usual mismatch of babies and lovers Characterizes the plot. One of two gondolieri--in the first act both marry--Gondolier he allegedly...
...plot in brief: The brilliant middle-aged Dr. Hallet, accompanied by the young, but also very brilliant, protege, are in Indonesia, or the like, finding a cure for the fatal tropical disease. When Hallet thinks he has found it, he prepares to infect himself with the desease, to try out his proposed innoculation. But the young, impetuous (and either stupid or suicidal) assistant preempts his mentor by infecting himself...
WHAT THERE IS of plot comes from the Book of Matthew, which most people know already. The Biblical myth loses its metaphysical connotations, leaving an oversimplified story of eight innocents in search of an answer. John the Baptist pulls a flower bedecked cart over the Brooklyn Bridge one morning. He appears to the city's hungry souls in need of salvation. Their troubles are varied: one has spilled coffee on her waitress's uniform. Another is stuck in a traffic jam and a third is unfairly forced to wait in line to use a Xerox machine. He summons them...
With virtually no plot line, these characters must carry the burden of Wilson's meaning, again more succinctly stated by Saroyan: "No foundation. All the way down the line." The same might be said for much of Wilson's play; it is most fascinating as a symptom. Why do U.S. playwrights and audiences regard derelicts as exotic romantics? Why should the dregs of society be regarded as the ultimate repositories of its wisdom? Why is a kinky personality presumed to be a rich one? And finally, how much of theatergoing has become a jaded form of slumming...