Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...King and Robert Kennedy, once among the young black soldier's idols, have died violently, Says Wardell Sellers, a rifleman from New York: "They were trying to help the brothers-you can see what that got them." Now many blacks see the case of Edward Kennedy as a plot to remove one more hope. "Just like King and Bobby Kennedy," says Pfc. Carl Horsley, 19, "They gon' try to hang Teddy 'cause he was on the side of the brothers." To most black soldiers, Nixon doesn't even bear discussion. "If he were a brother," says...
...less than a year later. He has written five newsbooks on his own, including Turned On, R.F.K., Mickey Mantle, and now, at 34, appears well on his way to becoming the single most prolific mass producer of new reading matter since Alexandre Dumas put his friends to work preparing plot outlines and sketching scenes-a bit of largesse that prompted a 19th century French journalist to remark: "No one has ever read the whole of Dumas, not even himself...
...evasion. He appears to be lipreading his English, although the script seems to find the language just about as alien as Mastroianni does. The five scriptwriters who supposedly worked on the film must have spent enough time at the water-cooler to flood a camel. The only smidgin of plot is that Dunaway makes a late abortive attempt at suicide, something the film successfully achieves after about ten minutes...
...WILD BUNCH. There's a lot of blood in this raucous, magnificent western directed by Sam Peckinpah, and a good deal of hard-edged poetry as well. The plot-about a bunch of freebooters on the Texican-Mexico border at the turn of the century, the actors are faultless to a man. and the film itself is one of the best of the year...
Died. Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, 85, British novelist whose 19 books provided an acerbic commentary on the Edwardian era; in London. Dame Ivy cared little for plot and less for scene setting; her regiment-sized casts of disembodied characters came and went like ghosts in a dank country estate. Yet she was a master of dialogue, uncovering the tragicomic foibles of upper-class England in such books as The Mighty and Their Fall and Bullivant and the Lambs...