Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...some 600,000 copies of its Power Glove, a crude $90 variant on the DataGlove that is designed for use with a Nintendo video-game player, despite the existence of only a handful of games to go with the glove. Virtual reality has even worked its way into the plot line of a feature film. In the forthcoming A Man and a Woman and a Woman, two characters fall in love within a virtual-reality demonstration...
...veterans of that rogues' gallery, Fidel Castro and Muammar Gaddafi, have survived attempts at what is known in spookspeak as "termination with extreme prejudice." In the early 1960s the CIA concocted exotic poisons and hired Mafia hit men in a bizarre and feckless murder plot against the Cuban leader. In 1986 Ronald Reagan hurled squadrons of fighter-bombers at Libya, and White House aides privately hoped at least one bomb would have Gaddafi's name...
...Sailor and his girlfriend Lula (Laura Dern) hightail it to New Orleans and Texas, where they encounter fat-lady porn stars and a slick psychopath (Willem Dafoe) who loses his head, literally and spectacularly, in a bank heist. To Barry Gifford's source novel Lynch adds a murder plot, an Elvis impersonation, a few torture scenes, a drug cartel, some cockroaches and a happy ending complete with deus ex machina. Not to mention frequent references to The Wizard of Oz, with which Wild has precisely nothing in common...
...flat-out comedy; he and his ensemble (including Diane Ladd and Crispin Glover) work at high pitch and have a swell time at it. Wild at Heart is also the first Lynch film in which his motives -- to hang a haberdashery of bizarre incidents on the merest hook of plot -- are apparent. You might go, "Ick!" but you won't ask, "Huh?" What's lacking is the old sense of delicious, disturbing mystery. Wild at Heart reveals a master of movie style on his way to becoming a mannerist...
...Caillot, a writer and former schoolteacher in the Normandy town of St.-Lo, has refused to eat for more than three weeks, and she shows no signs of ending her hunger strike. Caillot, 45, is protesting to ensure that the strip of trees on a 9,000-sq.-yd. plot of land she once owned will not be felled by its new owner...