Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...development will renovate a 28.5-acre plot on the shore of the Detroit River. Now occupied by decrepit commercial buildings, the area by 1980 will contain a soaring hotel, four office towers, apartment buildings and retail stores. To design the project, Ford has hired Architect John Portman, a vehement believer in the vitality of cities with proven experience in planning Atlanta's Peachtree Center and San Francisco's Embarcadero Center. Said Ford: "We all know what Chicago has done with its lakefront area. I think we in Detroit should be able to do at least as well along...
...plot is an offhand affair about a hot-shot California tennis player (Beau Bridges) afflicted with the same psychogenic pestilence that has raged through so many other contemporary movies (Five Easy Pieces, Two-Lane Blacktop). The tennis player has a smashing girl friend (Maud Adams), who turns him on but threatens to tie him down. His career is lucrative but unfulfilling. Even when his beloved coach and manager (Gilbert Roland) dies, he is incapable of feeling much more than self-pity. So with characteristic cool, he embarks on a course of suicide...
Convinced that money is the problem, Lucia hatches a sort of Raffles-in-hair-ribbons plot to rob a jewelry store, fence the proceeds through her favorite newsboy, reunite her parents in New York and live with them ever after. The plot is a hilarious failure, but the robbery makes such a scandal that Grandma sends Lucia back to her mother. Lucia arrives in a glow, triumphant. "Mother, I love you. I'm home." Mother, just out of a mental hospital, begins to laugh hysterically...
...creatures of the fringe. American literature and film have compounded the dislocation by using non-whites, Indians in particular, as if they were human period furniture, a portable part of the dramatic donnee to be carried through time and space to serve as an instant complication in the plot of countless Western sagas. As a result, few Americans know what happened when and where, for they have Hollywood visions of John Wayne chasing Mescaleros into Canada, Geronimo dying in five states, and Crazy Horse winning the Kentucky Derby...
Each burial in the southern area's single cemetery entails the shifting of corpses buried earlier-and the cost of a plot has soared to $5,000. Nearby residents are complaining about ugly and pervasive odors; in mid-November, a state legislator seriously proposed that all corpses henceforth be perfumed...