Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your statement about the side-by-side burial of the general and his mistress raises an interesting point. The fact is that some slaves wanted to be buried close to their white families, and in many instances it was done. One Mississippian told me that in his family plot there is one slave's grave now completely surrounded by the family. All of this came about because masters and slaves sometimes developed a deep sense of affection and loyalty not depending necessarily upon an adulterous relationship...
...mutilated minds, twisted psyches and lobotomized egos. In the book, laughter had come as relief from too much suffering, for both the characters and the reader, and accompanied the happier episodes of McMurphy's struggle against authority and self-surrender. On stage, the inmates become caricatures and the plot a rather lengthy bout with laughing...
...airport. Neither did Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru or Panama. Inexorably, Lansky's airliner continued its flight to Miami, and there two waiting FBI agents arrested the old man for gambling, tax evasion and various other malefactions. Before leaving Israel, Lansky disclosed that he had bought a burial plot there, adding, "If I can't come back alive, at least my body will...
Buried beneath the rubble of what once must have been a plot is a good idea. Two children (Michele Lourie, Patrick Vincent) are trapped in a cavernous old mansion, locked inside an abandoned room by a sinister and anonymous adult captor. A premise like this offers abundant opportunity to explore the fears and phantoms of childhood, perhaps even its pathology, and to investigate the same dark corridors that Richard Hughes probed in his magical novel A High Wind in Jamaica. Surely we might have expected René Clement, the director of Forbidden Games, to take at least a similar course...
LIKE THE INCOMPLETE MEALS which contain the action, a series of dreams act as additionally interlocking frames for the plot. The dreams are irrational, perverse, anarchic, and profane. A cavalry lieutenant interrupts the three women at their tea (though the restaurant, out of tea and coffee, serves only water), asking, "Did you have an unhappy childhood?" After recounting his own childhood when he poisoned his father, he abruptly excuses himself from the table. The film's fantasies are not only random and incidental like that of the cavalry officer's, but also structure our perceptions of the characters by revealing...