Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Director Bogdanovich's intention here was to do a pastiche of '30s screw ball comedy, particularly of Howard Hawks' Bringing Up Baby, whose plot he lifted and whose blisteringly fast pace he attempted to emulate. He also borrowed from other sources as varied as Buster Keaton and Animator Chuck (Roadrunner) Jones. The result is a comedy made by a man who has seen a lot of movies, knows all the mechanics, and has absolutely no sense of humor. Seeing What's Up, Doc? is like shaking hands with a joker holding a Joy Buzzer. The effect...
...King Hussein could announce that the sun was coming up tomorrow," a merchant in the Jordanian capital of Amman commented last week, "and Cairo Radio would be on the air ten minutes later denouncing the idea as a Zionist imperialist plot." Cairo Radio and almost every other Arab station in the Middle East were on the air last week criticizing Hussein for a different sort of announcement. The attacks were focused on his proposal (TIME, March 27) to divide his country into two autonomous regions-Palestine and Jordan-and to rename the combination the United Arab Kingdom...
...political, politics is just power-playing, and one mode of warfare isn't more virtuous than another just because it's sanctioned by the state. According to some ultimate kind of morality, he's right; still it's clearly the suck of action that involves him. After avenging the plot to murder his father, he flees to Sicily, getting back to the earth and into a wench named Appolonia. By the time he returns to New York, he has as much control over himself and his loved ones as his father. He is also in the tradition of second generations...
...plays depicting the nature and quality of black life in the U.S. The plays seem to resemble sections of track stamped "destination unknown." This is the price of writing drama that is all middle, with no discernible beginning or end. Bullins is rich in mood, poor in plot...
Anyone who doubts the extent to which terror has been trivialized has only to plot the limp trajectory from Frankenstein to The Munsters. Or they can read Brock Brower's remarkable comic novel which, among other things, demonstrates just how difficult it has become to be a monster...