Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crossed back over Cambridge Street down to an area near the tracks. There in front of us was a large plot of scarred land. Vellucci spoke enthusiastically of the plans the city (he) was carrying out there...
...load of that- that is the plot of the most recent play to open on Broadway. You can pay eight dollars to see it tonight in New York. It has a star (Geraldine Page), a pretty set, and cost $150.000 to put on. It opened Thursday night: with any luck it will run through next week: with a lot of luck. it will be sold to the movies. It will also make a few thousand people, those who happen to see it, very miserable for two hours. Most of those few thousand people may not come back to a Broadway...
...submit to this true-or-false test by attending the tepid little Broadway comedy called Butterflies Are Free. Playwright Leonard Gershe's basic plot is an old chestnut, dropping with a slightly pathetic spin: Blind Boy meets Girl, Blind Boy loses Girl, Blind Boy gets Girl...
...military power is scanted as mere brute "force.") Berle opens and closes with visits to Zeus, "god of power," who first used it to overthrow his father Cronus and control the Titans, those symbols of chaos -which Berle assumes is the one thing power can't abide. The plot thickens as Zeus gives birth to the world's first intellectual, Pallas Athena, who says of her father, "I never thought he had any brains," and then proceeds to fill that lack by showing him to what intelligent uses power can be put. Zeus also symbolically sires Apollo...
...Overruled is Slaw as his most irrelevant. The mood of the play, and even bits of its plot, is very close to Wilde's Importance of Being, Earnest. Two married couples have gone on trips around the world, but each pair has split itself up and started from opposite directions. The husband from each pair has met and tried to seduce the wife of the other, and they have all wound up in the same hotel in England at the end of their trips. That sounds implausible, but then farce is built on implausibility...