Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more palpable support. In a whirl of charges and countercharges, Prime Minister Jack Lynch fired two of his Cabinet ministers. A third resigned in sympathy. At week's end Lynch reshuffled his entire Cabinet. Behind the firings was the story, not yet fully substantiated, of an arms plot intended to strengthen the outnumbered Catholics of the North...
Though Lynch appeared convinced that the two ousted ministers were linked directly to the rumored plot, both men -former Agriculture Minister Neil Blaney and ex-Finance Minister Charles Haughey-flatly denied any involvement. In any event, disclosure of the gunrunning story heightened Protestant fears of a Catholic plot to take over Ulster and strengthened the hand of such right-wingers as the Rev. Ian Paisley. To appalled moderates on both sides of the Irish border, this seemed to promise renewed religious strife in the North this summer...
...Plot. Ostensibly the last of the 19 LPs turned out by the Beatles in the extraordinary six years of their fame, Let It Be is also one of their worst. The Long Winding Road, for example, with Spector's broad-brushed addition of strings, harp and choir, is outright embarrassing. Most of the takes were recorded in early 1969 during the shooting of a Beatles film happening, also called Let It Be. While the film (to be released this week in the U.S.) has no plot, its basic theme appears to be "a day in the recording life...
...director who sees the countinghouse at the center of the play cannot take seriously Portia's enchanted realm of Belmont, with its fairy-tale plot and flowery sentiments. Miller treats it as either hypocritical or irrelevant. He turns the casket scenes into occasions for extravaganzas of comic stage business. In the famous lyric dialogue between Lorenzo and Jessica ("In such a night as this . . ."), he makes Lorenzo a pipe-puffing bore and has Jessica fall asleep. Thus he undercuts the romantic element of the play, the key to what Shaw called the work's "humanity and poetry...
This pose is most irritating in the improbable scenarios which make up much of the book. The plot of these encounters is nearly always the same: Kelman enters a scene of political confusion, dispenses a few well-chosen? words, and leaves the previously-muddled speechless and enlightened. One of the best of these comes from Kelman's freshman diary, when he straightens out a few blacks...