Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...least that's what seems to be happening. You can't really be sure because Harkness speaks in what is meant to pass for hip street talk. Maybe Brother Michael wrote the plot outline and Brother Douglas translated it. At any rate, the writing in Dealing seems unrelated to anything spoken in real life. Consider...
...know," he confides, "I play Jesus Christ in Johnny Get Your Gun. I'd like to pursu?e that. Pontecorvo may do a film of The Passover Plot in which I would play Christ. We hope to break the barriers of religious tradition. Show Christ as a political genius. After all, politics emanates out of ourselves...
...witnesses were not asked any specific questions about a plot to bring explosives to California. One was asked a number of questions about a TDA demonstration at U. C. L. A. last February-several months before the alleged Weatherman plot was executed...
Director Robert Fuest is quite a comedown from original Director William Wyler, then hitting his stride. Wyler worked against the faintly ridiculous aspects of the plot. Fuest emphasizes them: the young bastard Heathcliff finds a soul mate in Cathy, who swears "I am Heath-cliff." Grown to wild manhood, he is thrust out of the ancestral digs, Wuthering Heights, by its owner Hindley. Cathy is pledged to another; Heathcliff goes abroad and returns a sudden gentleman of fortune. At the gaming table he wins most of the estate from the ruined Hindley, but too late. Cathy, doomed...
From this point the plot moves at a gallop, but it is really only a stalking-horse for the author's polished mockery and his gallery of fantastics. Catholicism corrupts, he clearly thinks, and churchliness corrupts absolutely. Every plot, from Anna's murder to Arthur's adultery, has priestly blessing. Farragan's ultimate betrayer, his wife, is a seemingly saintly lady who spends her passion on canonization drives for violated virgins...