Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sake of plot and to round out Shakespeare's theme of reconciliation, the play has to end in a courtly setting. Back in the kingdom of Sicilia, Leontes is reunited with his wife and his long-lost daughter, Perdita, Imagine the final scene: the persecuted queen is on a pedestal frozen in a statue pose. Enter Leontes with full court procession. Lo, the statue moves. Queen Hermione kisses Leontes, then embraces Perdita. Thus far, the sentiments seem as bogus as the stage mechanism. In answer to the general call for "light libations," all the company extras stream onstage from different...
...Shakespeare's greatest tragedy. Antony and Cleopatra is surely his greatest play. And this is due precisely to the element of reconciliation. Its structure is vast and symphonically cohesive and organic. No play can equal the sustained intensity of the lyrical poetry, the unfailingly perfect interpenetration of theme, plot, character, time image, and metaphor. In Nilus and Tiber. East and West, queen and soldier, Shakespeare found brilliantly effective dramatic terms for love and war, surely, the most successful dramatic terms for any of his plays. The startling sensuo??sness of the language, which "hits the sense": the resor...
Roffman said that if a restraining order is not issued by noon today when construction is expected to resume demonstrators will gather to block buildozers from entering the two-acre plot of parkland that is owned by West End House, Inc-the charitable organization which is sponsoring the building of the boys' club...
...July 6, Stokcley Carmichacl announced from exile in Africa that he Taos resigning as Prime Minister of the Black Panther Party because of the group's policy of making alliances with white radical groups. In New York, the proceedings against 21 Panthers allegedly involved in a bomb plot continued. On July 7, George F. McGrath. New York City Commissioner of the New York City Department of Justice justified holding the New York defendants in isolation cells with special security measures by saying that the Panthers were "recognized militants. as part of a formal party which urges people to be antiestablishment...
...plot would be entirely diverting if it were not mercilessly weighted down with Ideas. Sanders, alas, has clearly read his Sartre. His hoods are given to observations like "Crime is the truth. Law is the hypocrisy." There is no sex in the usual sense, because the characters prefer to engage in whippings. It turns out that tape is not the ideal medium for dramatizing this kind of eroticism, but there is enough twaddle about the relationship between violent crime and perverted sex to make St. Genet set fire to his halo...