Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Scribneriana might baffle the sensible reader but it should be only good news for the Fitzgerald fanatic. The fanatic should overlook the fact that many of these letters are old stuff, that much of the collection is swamped with technicality and detail, and that the book has little plot and no conclusion. For the Fitzgerald fanatic it should simply be a happy day that the correspondence between the two men has been brought together in one book, conveniently located for inspirational readings...
...violently controversial. Labor leaders denounced it as a plot to drive down wages in industry. Republicans charged that it was a plot by the Roosevelt Administration to buy votes. Most of all, the agency was damned as a gigantic boondoggle; in fact, that word, which until then referred to leather handicrafts made by Boy Scouts, was turned into a pejorative word by WPA critics...
...hypocrisy he sees around him and doggedly asserts his own righteousness. He is, however, madly in love with Celimene, an incorrigably trivial coquette who likes to play her string of courtier suitors off against each other by deceiving each one into thinking that he is her true love. The plot thickens into a series of brilliant verbal battles and intrigues between the suitors and between Celimene and her lady rivals. She is finally exposed, and the courtiers, including Alceste, go their own way and leave her to probably only a moment's regreat of the whole preceeding...
Through it all, there weaves a plot of sorts. Will the English land secret shipment of snuff on Rhett O'Ricks dock? Will Rhett stay sober enough to that Miss Glory Morning can marry him? Will Johnny Profane remain true to Chaste DeBluesaway despite her miniscule breasts? Or will her father the Mayor foreclose the Wrongway Inn instead? Not quite the ideological origins of the American Revolution, to be sure...
...energy and brought off some splendid dance routines. The second-act kickline ("The Don't Tread-on-Me-Blues"--composer Stephen Sondheim seem's to have been the evening's guiding light) is a harlequin-outfitted Busby Berkely spectacular which has nothing at all to do with the plot and is probably all the better for it. As proper compliment to the direction, Franco Colavecchia has done a swell job of set design--his complicated arrangement of backdrops and scrims are like a series of Saul Steinberg New Yorker covers--and B. Allen Odom has contributed a witty display...