Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...category. "Frankenstein," begins to define the nature of America's scientific fantasy by revealing a morbid fear of technology and a fascination with escape from rigid social restraints. The 1932 original movie, starring Colin Clive as the obsessed doctor and Boris Karloff as the monster, rests on a simple plot, but touches deep unconscious forces. As Colin Clive raises Boris Karloff to the ceiling to receive electrical impulses from the thunderstorm raging outside. Clive's fiancee pleads with him to return to her. But he is obsessed by his monster. In fact on a deeper level no difference exists between...
...rounds regularly. Two of them, however, fell victim last week to authoritative debunking. For some Americans it has been an article of faith that the campus upheavals of recent years could not be the spontaneous work of their children, but must in fact be the fruit of sinister plotting and manipulation by the Communists. A corollary conviction has it that any dissenters who come off the worse from encounters with law enforcement officers undoubtedly asked for it. Both were knocked down by no less an authority than the Federal Bureau of Investigation. William C. Sullivan, the bureau...
...plot notion hardly impresses serious critics like University of Chicago Economist Milton Friedman. Instead, they view the environmental movement as a mere fad that will soon vanish, like the War on Poverty. Friedman also decries the tendency of some crusaders to cast big industrial corporations* as "evil devils who are deliberately polluting the air." He argues that the real source of most pollution is the consumer...
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls carries a vehement prologue stating that it is not actually a sequel to the original; indeed, the film makers have used the salable title merely as a point of departure for their own individualistic assault on good taste. The plot defies both credulity and synopsis, but has generally to do with the adventures of an all-girl rock trio called the Carrie Nations as they slither from one bed to another on the road to fame in Hollywood. The direction by Skin Flick Impresario Russ Meyer (TIME, June 13, 1969) is full of sexual...
...case of Ralph Blum's The Simultaneous Man, most of the items in question fit snugly enough into a compelling plot designed to dissuade the itchy finger of exegesis. The book is at once a superior science-fiction story, a polished exercise in literary styles and a deeply personal moral statement...