Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...extra police stood duty in the center of London. Police launches and even frogmen guarded the Thames river approaches to Parliament. The building entrance was encircled by wire netting, and police made four separate searches through the underground tunnels in which, exactly 366 years ago, Guy Fawkes' plot to blow up Parliament had been discovered...
...repugnance and tolerance that results in some very close readings of their emotional fevers. His style does not preclude tenderness, kindness or sensitivity, although he often seems like an experienced physician smoothly examining a naked patient. The effect is a fascination that distracts the mind from predictability of both plot and retribution. The end finds Rabbit and Janice joining up once again with the cold, metallic precision of a lunar landing vehicle docking with its command module after a mission. "O.K.?" is the last word of the novel. It is a taciturn echo of space talk, but it is also...
...reports said that when the plot was exposed, Lin Piao and some of the higher military conspirators tried to escape to the Soviet Union in an air force plane which crashed in the Mongolian Republic...
...course it isn't fair to judge a drama by its plot line alone: Shakespeare stole his, and none of them would win at Cannes. We should consider also the important elements of language, characterization, poetic vision and nobility of sentiment, all of which we have appreciated in The Passion of Anna and Persona as well as in Lear...
...plot is a simple one. David Konrad (simianly played by Elliot Gould), a sexually unbalanced German-American Jewish professor from London arrives in Sweden, finds Karin Bloch (Bibi Andersson) pining in a convalescent home coat closet and falls haplessly in love. To complete the obligatory triangle, the too-busy husband, Andreas (acted, Thank God! by Max von Sydow), makes an occasional phone call or brilliant goodbye on his way to and from the hospital. He is a surgeon, by the way, not an invalid; we see Elliot Gould sprawled in a graveyard, and the claim, at least, is that...