Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When FBI agents captured Angela Davis in a Manhattan motel last week, it seemed that the denouement of the mystery surrounding the striking, cerebral young radical might be near. Instead, the plot only thickened. Along with Angela, federal agents arrested David Poindexter, a black Chicagoan with known Communist ties. They also introduced another new, if slightly aging, character into the drama-the Communist Party, U.S.A. The result was a baffling mixture of Old Left and New, with Angela the pivotal figure...
...years with this regiment." But he has not acted remotely like a gentleman, only like a sour, spoiled, self-indulgent brat. Besides, Mrs. Hasseltine is in the weakest position to raise any moral questions since it is she who has maligned an innocent man's character. Even as plot jockeying, this kind of dishonest playwriting does not pay, for the audience feels in the end that the emotion, interest and belief that it has invested in the play have all been exploited and betrayed...
...learned to settle for a chuckle instead of a guffaw, to suggest an idea instead of pounding it into the viewer's head, to be inspirational rather than pedantic. You can try to ignore the propaganda in plays like St. Joan or Major Barbara, which have something of a plot line, and at some points in them you can even ignore the bad jokes. The three plays which opened this week at the Loeb Drama Center, on the other hand, go a long way toward showing how bad a really bad Shaw work...
...date of the Creation. This chitchat is followed by a second act in the form of a dialogue on the nature and purpose of kingship between Charles and his wife. The philosophy is all very interesting, but it would have been nicer if Shaw had included at least a plot to spice things...
Chief Gormeyer, the star witness in Rusher's case, said that surveillance had helped deter acts of violence, such as a plot to blow up President Nixon's home in Key Biscayne...