Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make it, Phillips so far has spent or committed $10.9 million on Salton City. Improvement costs are high, but so are profits. On a one-third-acre plot that costs Phillips about $40, he puts in another $400 for development and $600 for promotion. His selling price: $2,000 or more. After a land buyer has paid one-third the cost of his lot, the Phillips organization will provide 100% financing, at 7% interest, to build a house...
...Sleeping Beauty is crude: a compromise between sentimental, crayon-book childishness and the sort of cute, commercial cubism that tries to seem daring but is really just square. The hero and heroine are sugar sculpture, and the witch looks like a clumsy tracing from a Charles Addams cartoon. The plot often seems to owe less to the tradition of the fairy tale than to the formula of the monster movie. In the final reel it is not a mere old-fashioned witch the hero has to kill, but the very latest model of The Thing From 40,000 Fathoms...
...physician rages against God; a girl he loved when they were both children died before she reached adulthood.* The plot devices through which he is brought back to religion are soapy and soporific; it is enough to mention that Lucanus pays a call at the imperial court in Rome, where the Empress Julia, rouge-breasted and panting, urges him to orgy. But at the last minute, Lucanus begs off. whereupon nasty old Emperor Tiberius realizes that he is the first decent man to show up in Rome for years and gives Lucanus a dandy ring...
...Smithsonian Observatory, is an expert on meteors and meteoric risk to satellites as well as optical tracking; Theodore E. Sterne, Associate5The basis of JACCHIA'S discovery of the direct relationship between solar radiation and the movement of the satellites is illustrated by these four lines. The top two plots show the acceleration of two earth satellites due to varying atmospheric density, over a period from April to December, 1958. The third graph is the intensity of solar radiation during the same period, and shows how peaks and troughs occur together on the three lines. The lower plot measures the angular...
Things get much better very quickly after that. Master Pierre Patelin is an ancient and anonymous French piece beloved of high school French teachers, who are not in all respects exactly like the rest of us. The complicated plot concerns a disreputable lawyer who cheats others and who is himself cheated, and never would intrigue have been less intriguing, except for an excellent actor by the name of John Casey. Mr. Casey sweats not, neither does he strain. He plays the shifty Patelin as one of those people who, when they are not leaning against something, contrive somehow to appear...