Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...imagery of the film is as obvious as the plot. When Mark is refused a free sandwich, Antonioni cuts to an oversize billboard advertising sandwich bread. Los Angeles, used as a metaphor for America, is portrayed largely in visual cliches: billboards, TV commercials, neon lights, gun stores, crowded freeways, shabby neighborhoods. The brief footage of riot and bloodshed seems child's play compared with Medium Cool, and the musical score-made up mostly of contemporary rock tunes-is so uncertainly used as to appear superimposed. The two newcomers who play the leading roles are, like the film itself, pretty...
...find a glimmer of hope in the jury's refusal to convict the Seven of conspiring to plot the police riot during the Democratie National Convention; the government away to jail for Thoughtcrime. Nevertheless, everyone who has protested, at Chicago, or Washington, or Boston, against this nation's terrible insanity, should recognize the trial in Chicago as the most obvious attempt yet at political repression. When the courts resort to locking up lawyers we must realize how absurd quiet faith in the judicial process really is. One defendant thanked Hoffman for finally and totally exposing the American system...
...misguided jobs of musical staging I've ever seen. Marre should know that tragedy can only work in musicals if treated slyly: the sadder events of Hogan's Goat must sneak in the back door of Who to Love -for if the audience is allowed to dwell on unhappy plot developments in a musical, the audience eventually realizes how silly the whole musical convention...
...beginning to think the secret minutes tell us more about the forgers and their plot than the letter does," Butler said yesterday. "It is possible that the forgers, in developing their scheme, had in mind influencing both the British and American elections in 1924," he added...
Born in Russia, Reilly had been an intelligence officer for the Czarist government working with Rasputin. He was involved in an early plot in 1918 to assassinate Lenin and became involved with anti-Bolshevik groups in Europe...