Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pakistani intelligence agents discovered a large cache of Soviet-made arms at the Iraqi embassy in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad. Bhutto charged that the arms had been smuggled in to aid a civilian coup against him, though he has offered no conclusive proof. He used the alleged plot as an excuse to oust the Iraqi ambassador, sack the two governors and send additional troops into Baluchistan...
Other characters seek refuge from anxiety in airless logic, superstition, nostalgic memories, magic or endeavors like Film Critic Mitchell Prettyplace's 18-volume study of King Kong. There is a plot of sorts. The antics of Pynchon's odd crew cover a conspiracy to build their own V rocket and fire it off. Aimed at what and for what purpose? Who knows? Making a rocket from scrounged parts seems to be like making a philosophical system or a mystic cult. It is something humans simply have...
Double Agents. Pynchon's plot leafs out riotously, according to his fertile imagination and extraordinary talents, which include writing raucous ballads. Members of this secret rocket-building conspiracy appear to be double agents, at the very least. Allegiances are never clear. As the years pass and the search for parts continues all over postwar Europe, loyalties fade and new, complicated patterns suggesting international business cabals emerge. Everyone seems to be a part of an incomprehensible engine whose function is to generate paranoia. Call it history; call it the modern world where science and technology change the rules faster than...
...family's horror, the proceeds are divided up between this lunatic son and Tucke., the socialist man servant (played by Arthur Lowe whose endearing sarcasms ought to kindle the heart in the bust of Karl Marx). But Jack's relatives devise a plot. Jack must produce an heir and then, if they are to enjoy the revenue as legal guardians of the child, Jack must be proved insane. So he is married off to an actress (Carolyn Seymour...
ADMITTEDLY IT'S NOT much plot for five dollars, and Segal doesn't make up for that weakness in any other department. He's dispensed with things like descriptive prose, character development or even the maudlin emotion-grabbing of Love Story. Apparently amusement is the goal of this little book, and any strenuous exercise of intellect or emotions beyond that of, say, The Secret Storm or The Edge of Night is too tiring to be amusing...