Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...controversy involves Con Ed's desire to build a pumped power storage facility on the Hudson River at Storm King Mountain near Cornwall, N.Y. The project would involve the acquisition, probably by eminent domain, of about 230 acres of Black Rock Forest, a 3700-acre plot bequeathed to the University by Ernest G. Stillman...
...does not appear that Diamond's hopes for Harvard action in the matter will be realized. While Zimmerman said the plot in question had been "denuded by early settlers, but has now returned to the state of primeval forest." Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, said that to his understanding, the portion Con Ed would need has "no research value and is poor horticulturally...
...plot is fairly complex and farcical, and Yandell does a neat job of keeping the small confusions and flimsy coincidences straight. Both Vandervanes use him: Kitty to try and persuade her husband to leave Sylvia, Sir Roy to further the escapade. Uppermost (but never very elevated) in Yandel's mind is preserving his friend's musical reputation by preventing a performance of Elevations 9. Spreading butter on Sir Roy's bow only postpones the debacle a few minutes. Happily Yandell has small expectations...
...Lawyer. The plot could have been maliciously inspired by a former Hughes man who masterminded it. If the material simply fell into the Irvings' laps as purloined goods, some think that Edith could have been the brains behind the operation. A longtime friend of the Irvings' observes: "Edith is essentially an adventurer. She wouldn't be interested in it primarily for the money. She'd like to do it because of the intrigue, the danger." In fact, says the friend, if the banking arrangements had been left strictly to Edith, "there probably wouldn't have...
Hampered by a simulated French accent, Bloom lacks gravity in certain scenes, but her ravishing beauty is authority enough. With a voice that can raise a welt with a whisper, Atkins is monarch of all she surveys. The rest of the excellent cast helps make the Broadhurst Theater a plot of royal ground...