Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pericles has a weak plot, involving a Prince of Tyre, who finds himself pursued, for various obscure yet slimy reasons, by agents of the King of Antioch. In the course of the play, he gets through seven cities, and at least as many shipwrecks, winning and losing and finding and losing and finally being re-united with his wife, his kingdom, and his daughter, not necessarily in that order. Much of the play is completely dispensable, but the section which starts when Pericles' daughter is sold into prostitution is masterful, obviously Shakespeare...
...suburb has long had a powerful hold on the American imagination. In the national mythology it is a place of status and security: it is the persistent dream of a green and pleasant oasis not too far from the office, a plot of ground that offers the calm of the country with all the advantages of the city within easy reach. The dream ranges from the manicured privacy of Long Island's "Gold Coast" to the die-stamped uniformity of California's Daly City, which inspired Malvina Reynolds' derisive song Little Boxes. Between those extremes hovers...
Vulnerability. The Capitol blast followed the bombing or attempted bombing last year of 32 buildings across the country that are owned or leased by the Federal Government. Well before last week's explosion, security at all federal buildings had already been tightened in the wake of the alleged plot by the Berrigan brothers (TIME, Jan. 25) to kidnap Henry Kissinger and blow up heating ducts in the capital's underground area. The 7.5-mile tunnel system that connects the basements of Government office buildings in Washington has been equipped with an alarm system and most of its manholes...
...TURKEY, an ambitious plot was carried out by kidnapers who identified themselves as members of the Turkish People's Liberation Army-a previously unknown group probably related to a Maoist student organization called the Dev-genc (TIME, March 1). The kidnapers seized four U.S. servicemen near Ankara and demanded $400,000: otherwise, they said, their American prisoners would be executed by a firing squad...
...hard to understand just how Buechner makes this all work, but, somehow, he does. The novel is extremely entertaining, very funny, but not frivolous. The plot is not overwhelmingly brilliant, merely an opportunity for Buechner to exercise his talent at describing and delineating characters. Throughout the book, he uses that talent to best effect, never descending to cheapness to make a point. His description of his protagonist's first act of exhibitionism is the most lyrical periphrasis of a grisly subject I have ever seen, a masterpiece of style and taste...