Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Keys: War veterans sent to build the Keys highway, punch-drunk and turbulent, brawling in one of the bars; writers from the artists' colony amorously intriguing; rich yachtsmen, cabdrivers. These candidoes, written too deliberately from the "slice-of-life" point of view, too fortuitously presented in the plot, are not always so fortunate. But most readers will agree that Author Hemingway can rest well content with the knowledge that in Harry Morgan, hard, ruthless, implacable in his lonely struggle, he has created by far his most thoroughly consistent, deeply understandable character...
...Torrents of Spring (1926), a hasty burlesque of Sherwood Anderson's books, was written, so tradition has it, at the instigation of F. Scott Fitzgerald, to end Hemingway's relations with his publisher, Horace Liveright. Plot was that Liveright, annoyed at the ribbing of his star author, Sherwood Anderson, would refuse the manuscript, thus leaving Hemingway free to join Friend Fitzgerald at Scribners. At any rate, so it turned out. Scribners took the dud Torrents of Spring, thus securing a bestseller, The Sun Also Rises, as well as all Hemingway's subsequent books. From then on, Author...
Dealing with a rather complicated plot of jewel swiping and necklace swapping, the picture is none the less sufficiently clear for pleasure. Though a bit tedious at times, "Love Under Fire" is a strong backer to a strong forerunner. Orchids to the U. T., then, for a program of definite worth at a time when first rate entertainment seems a thing of the past...
...piece, if one does not object to Mr. McCrea's poorly placed voice. He seems as over unable to express any natural emotions with his vocal chords. For the rest, the picture concerns a ring of thieves, a bright young play detective, and a somewhat befuddled girl in a plot which would have been improved by the presence of a mystery rather than a romontic male lead...
Officials have observed the situation for some time. But realization has been slow in arriving that these children are bad because they have never had an athletic field or a football of their own. Eve was never more tempted in Eden than these on the outskirts of a grass plot they must not walk on. It isn't that the children deserve any attention, though of course they do. It is simply that Harvard both holds out the temptation and hides the whipping...