Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...challenge, in hopes of learning more before the election. Last week the House Banking and Currency Committee, headed by Texas Democrat Wright Patman, issued a report detailing the movement of $100,000 in Nixon campaign contributions through Mexico and contending that some of it was used in the bugging plot...
This movie could pass nicely for an orientation film to be shown at a psychoanalysts' convention. A study of Oedipal torments in upper-middle-class Manhattan, it is so scrupulous about establishing psychological explanations for each turn of the plot that even the most casual viewer may feel compelled to jot down a few notes...
...plot, which is barely discernible, concerns the physical and emotional bruising inflicted and endured by the denizens of the roller rink. Raquel, refusing to throw a match, wins the competition but loses the man she loves (Kevin McCarthy). Raquel's rival on the track is played by Helena Kallianitoes, the manic hitchhiker in Five Easy Pieces, who turns in a performance so alive with currents of frustration and alcoholic lesbian hostility that it should never have been wasted on a penny-dreadful movie like this...
Irving never really intended, he says, to keep the $750,000 that he extracted from his publishers. He and his collaborator Richard Suskind originally planned nothing more wicked than "a gorgeous literary caper." As the plot deepened, he saw it as "a venture into the unknown, a testing of myself." His wife Edith approved, he recalls, and so did his mistress Nina van Pallandt. "You're quite, quite mad," Nina said to Irving when he told her of the project in their Mexican hotel bedroom, "but the world is mad, so what's the bloody difference...
Priest (Ron O'Neal) is a pusher and user of cocaine. He dresses stylishly, has lots of girls, lives high and wants out, for vague reasons that have mostly to do with plot. If Priest did not want out, then the big dealers would not be after him, the cops would not be hassling him, and there would be one less dreary, sleazy movie about high jinks and low life in the ghetto...