Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both the old and new Grand Juries have officially been investigating an alleged Weatherman plot to transport explosives from Tucson to California, but only a few questions asked of the witnesses have been related to this matter...
...play), ends up in Newgate Prison, escapes, is recaptured, hanged, then torn to pieces by souvenir hunters. Campbell's play is episodic, fast-moving, and filled with murky black dialogue. Senelick has expanded upon the episodic format of the text, so that time and the fairly simple plot are frequently interrupted by little extrapolative scenes. This is a hazardous technique, for such material must have an independent value great enough to warrant stopping the action of the play. A ballet parody between a tutu-ed, gum-chewing thief and a pointey-tailed, devil's-horned Jonathan Wild works well...
...Government contends that the letters are authentic. If so, a kidnap plot certainly was discussed, although it is also clear that no violence to Kissinger was planned. The notion of kidnaping Kissinger and grilling him while cameras grind and tunnel explosions provide a sonic background seems a fanciful and irrational exercise for well-educated clerics. But to the Government, at least, the matter is too serious to be dismissed as the surrealistic musings of excited crusaders...
...Bengal, the West Pakistanis' old obsessive hatred of the Indians has flared up again. The federal government has completely sealed off West Pakistan from outside reports about the repressive army crackdown in East Pakistan. Denied reliable reporting, West Pakistanis tend to view the conflict as a sinister Indian plot to dismember their country. India has remained nominally neutral, but it has in fact given Bengali rebels a haven...
...Director Vadim constantly undercuts himself with the kind of sleazy eroticism (many shots of panties and nubile cleavage) that has made him a cinematic Flo Ziegfeld, but his decidedly black sense of humor has not been so finely honed since he made Les Liaisons Dangereuses ten years ago. The plot concerns a high school guidance counselor and football coach (nicely played by Rock Hudson) who relates to students in a decidedly intimate fashion. The film does not completely work, either as thriller or farce, mostly because Vadim insists on treating his actresses like so many rhinestones in the buff...