Word: plotting
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...long sections of on-line chat. The problems of this inherently artificial form of communication are made even worse by clichd lines about safe sex, homophobia and unconditional love; with all of this linguistic burden to carry, it's no surprise that the script occasionally loses track of its plot, awkwardly stumbling over a few After School Special messages. Thankfully, though, director Eric Engel (Director of Memorial Hall/Sanders Theatre) still manages to blend Lucas' words into an (almost) seamless narrative journey to the dark side of greed, jealousy and betrayal. A combination of smooth technical savvy, crisp staging...
...Daisy's comfortable, familiar life is turned upside down. Fear not for poor Daisy, though-less than 24 hours later she has already met a new man, a parasitologist named Truman Wolff. Ironically, Truman's daughter, Phoebe, is dating Daisy's son, Sammy, leading to a whole series of plot twists that give new meaning to the term symbiosis...
...seems that, in a sense, sports resembles theatre. The plot twists on a large stage before a national audience usually end up as either slapstick or Shakespeare. Either way, the unpredictable element of every move engenders a certain mystique that makes important games what they...
Joseph and Nereciana reinhabited a familial plot in Rwankogoto and began the process of building their dirt-floor, four-room hut from bamboo, reeds and mud. The house, perched on a hillside overlooking a fertile valley, catches morning sun and stores the warmth all day within its thick stucco walls. They built a thatched-roof outhouse, a rabbit hutch and a chicken coop. They cleared four acres of farmland and sowed their first crop: manioc, beans, peanuts, pineapples and sweet potatoes. Her sisters lent Nereciana pots and empty jerricans that she filled with bananas, yeast and hops to ferment banana...
...round-the-clock surveillance from the window of a nearby high school, hoping to overhear a graveside confession from one of the many mourners who trooped by. But the effort netted little more than curious gawkers--and a salesman who signed up an elderly couple for a nearby burial plot...