Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Feydeau's beds and bedlam are most happily with us again in the 1896 work Le Dindon (The Turkey), here entitled There's One in Every Marriage. Following a Feydeau plot is like trying to trail a snake through a bayou. It exists by twists and turns, sudden panics and slithery asides...
...major premises start the plot rolling in Jeeves and the Tie That Binds. The first is that Jeeves is writing up a record of Bertie's latest misadventures for his club, the Junior Ganymede, an exclusive organization for butlers which keeps a book on the habits and peculiarities of their employers. Bertie is naturally concerned least the book fall into the wrong hands. The second is that Bertie's old Oxford chum. Harold "Ginger" Winship, is standing for Parliament in the by-election at Market Snodsbury, in deference to the wishes of his bossy finance, Florence Craye, Bertie goes...
...plot is slightly less complicated than the normal Wodehouse novel, which is too bad, since the intricacies of Bertie's woes account for much of the fun. To make up for this, there is more reliance on verbal humor. A device used more than usual is the juxtaposition of the silly situations with Jeeves' somber quotations from world literature...
...seen on the home screen by an estimated 45 million viewers, the National Football League play-offs were more like playlets. Each of the four games had its own distinct plot, each its own cast of likely and unlikely heroes...
Those of us who feel alienated from our political environment thus despair, retreat, reject, and disapprove. Those who feel at home in these surroundings do plan wars and plot their paths to corporate presidencies and material riches...