Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stage directions spelled out the beginning of a plot- The Plot to Kill Stalin -Playhouse 90's scheduled return this week to the shrinking world of live TV drama (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., E.D.T., CBS). However the show might turn out, famed Producer Fred Coe (Peter Pan, Two for the Seesaw) had labored hard to make it authentic. On his orders, Writer David Karp and a staff of researchers went to work like aspiring Ph.D.s...
...chaperoned, by a sophisticated marchesa. Living in a Florentine convent, they talk, dream, paint, write, compose, writhe in the agonies of their love affairs, while the sisters of the convent go calmly about their business and the great art of Florence forms a soothing backdrop. Author VanOrden's plot seems hardly worth the time. What is best about her flashingly literate book is the handsomely sketched Florentine setting, against which the bright chatter of her young Americans seems like a volatile gas, dissipated before the old city is even aware of its presence...
...there are messy soft spots in between the bursts of hilarity. They would do well to excise entirely the pretty, insipid secretary who, it turns out at the end, is going to marry the hero after all. And they ought to write the moral issue out of the plot, because they handle it very clumsily, and because it does not belong in their play anyway. (A very wise old critic has remarked that sleazy sentimentality and pseudo-morality are the two worst vices of the commercial theater...
When the foregoing matters are attended to, there will be left a very serviceable plot gimmick, involving a playboy who has just shot his seventh wife "in the fleshy part of the thigh." His defense is that having drunk two bottles of Scotch whiskey in twelve hours, he was not aware of what he was doing. When the prosecution adduces medical testimony to the effect that anybody with two-fifths of a gallon tucked in would be incapable of doing anything, a lad just out of Harvard Law is selected to save the situation by ingesting fifty-odd jiggers...
...City Council will vote on Monday on approval of the Riverview Redevelopment Project, a proposal to restore a 21/2-acre plot on Mount Auburn St. adjoining Sparks...