Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this imprisoning world also contains their actions. Edelstein plays down his actors' facial expressions and impetuous gestures, orchestrating every body motion into the rhythm of the film. Changes in his characters' positions directly express the progress of the plot and establish a system of relations between his characters which you see unfold before you eyes...
...Rainbird, a 30-year-old British-born emigrant to New Zealand, is pronounced dead after a traffic accident. His wife prepares to don widow's weeds, his children begin to adjust as orphans, his sister flies from England for the funeral. A monogrammed casket is purchased, a cemetery plot arranged for, But there is no funeral. Thirty-six hours after his "death," Godfrey rises from a deep coma, a little shaky but quite ready to resume his life...
This could be the stuff of social fable, religious parable, supernatural fantasy or even black comedy. Sadly, it too often emerges as little more than a tepid and distended mood piece. The hero is literally too cold and stiff, the plot too standpattish, the pace too funereal and the symbolism too obvious...
...Many Cooks (1938), Wolfe is guest of honor at a meeting of top international chefs, one of whom, naturally, gets murdered. Wolfe manages to trap the culprit while discoursing on U.S. haute cuisine and recounting such favorite recipes as sauce printemps and shad roe mousse Pocohontas. Plot It Yourself (1959) offers a revealing satire of the publishing industry as Wolfe uses literary detection to expose a plagiarist-killer. Triple Jeopardy (1952) is a collection of three taut novellas, of which the most intriguing is The Squirt and the Monkey, in which Wolfe's only witness to a murder...
...things turn out, Horace dwindles into one of the author's plot devices. He kills a man and is hunted by a posse in a series of scenes that are not good Williams but bad Faulkner. This is disappointing, but perhaps not important. The counterfeit Faulkner fades, and Horace stays stingingly in the mind, along with much else from Williams' uneven but intriguing fourth novel...