Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contended that white extremists had either ambushed the pair or booby-trapped their car, perhaps trying to kill Brown. But police pointed out that Featherstone and Payne had driven in from Washington without notice, cruised around Bel Air briefly and seemed to be headed back. That assassins could plot and move so quickly defies belief...
...kaleidoscopic plot, adapted from Arthur Hailey's bestselling novel, is absurdly complex, and the cast of a dozen stars scurries about to service it. Burt Lancaster lumbers about as Mel Bakersfield, manager of an unnamed metropolitan airport who is faced with the usual night of danger, laughter, suspense and heartbreak. Burt's main problem of the moment is the jetliner stuck in the snow out there on No. 29 runway. As if that were not enough, another flight just has to land on that runway. Seems there is a mad bomber (Van Heflin) on board, who is threatening...
...medium in which to express the madness and torment of Becket's struggle with his fate. What the audience sees is not so much the performance of a play, as the enactment of a ritual. The characters speeches are set in poetry: there is the barest outline of a plot. It is up to the director and the actors themselves to endow this ritual with all the intensity and the passion of the themes it seeks to express. Director David Wheeler and the Theatre Company of Boston succeed in doing this beautifully...
...expansion of the novel's meaning, Wurlitzer resembles Thomas Pynchon, who also wrote a book in which the reader adopts the protagonist's emotion instead of merely sympathizing with it. In The Crying of Lot 49, the plot contains a possible conspiracy that you see as a possible conspiracy existing in your life in exactly the same sense as it exists in the novel. The intellectualized emotions contained within the book are generalized outside of it in a way that does not usually happen...
That is the beginning of a new movie called The Ballad of Cable Hogue and, truth to tell, there is not much more of a plot after that. Cable (Jason Robards) stubbornly battles thirst and wins, discovering a water hole in the desert. He stakes a claim, swears revenge on his two partners (Strother Martin and L.Q. Jones) and meets a tasty tart named Hildy (Stella Stevens), who winds up keeping house at his combination water hole and stagecoach stop. He falls in with an itinerant preacher and whoremonger who calls himself the Rev. Joshua Duncan Sloane (David Warner...