Word: plot
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...Palestinians simply don't understand the Israelis. They see them either as all-powerful and able to do anything, or otherwise as easily defeated. There's no objective, realistic approach to Israel. For example, when Barak has problems with parties leaving his coalition, they see it either as a plot or as a sign that Barak counts for nothing. They don't understand the political culture of Israel, of a democracy. Of course they're going to disagree with Israel's positions on Jerusalem, for example, but they haven't made it their business to try and understand why Barak...
...found every Thursday morning at the sinfully addictive Ivy Bake Shoppe, where Martha Wolf and Susan Welch Saunders' blackberry scones make the sorry impostors at a certain ubiquitous coffee-house chain taste like clay pigeons, and where a juiced-up group of local retailers and other die-hards plot strategies for the town, not just for it to survive but to prosper...
America was created by people riding its rivers--the most fruitful, profitable places to settle lying just around the bend. The country itself was a bend in the river, a story about to be disclosed, a promise of progress--that, of course, and a murder plot. Following rivers with Indian names, the latest Americans could kill off the first. For better and worse, the Old World married the New by a band of water...
...nearly impossible for any Southern writer to avoid the specter of William Faulkner. The world he created in Yoknapatawpha County, perhaps the best-known plot of literary real estate, exerts its influence over the aspirations of the region's writers and the expectations of readers and critics. It could therefore be construed as an act of either bravado or foolishness that Randall Kenan, who lives in Memphis and was raised in North Carolina, has also constructed a fictional Southern locale, a swampy speck called Tims Creek, N.C. "I could have run," says Kenan, 37, of the inevitable comparisons...
This unlikely progression forms the central plot of Myla Goldberg's Bee Season (Doubleday; 275 pages; $22.95), a winningly eccentric and intriguing first novel. Eliza's discovery of her talent at spelling may sound like the stuff of human-interest news items, but Goldberg is up to something more demanding here than simply warming readers' hearts. She portrays not only Eliza's happy successes but the unexpected, upsetting effects they have on the other three members of her family...