Word: plotting
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Manchurian. In the 1962 John Frankenheimer film The Manchurian Candidate, a former POW war hero is brainwashed and becomes an assassin in a Communist plot to take over the presidency. John McCain is known in certain circles as "The Manchurian Candidate...
There's also something weird about the belief that telling me the story of my food's preparation will make me like it more. Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, "Food." The basic plot hasn't changed for centuries. I shouldn't need to know any more details, any more history, in order to decide if my food tastes good or not. If I did, then with every paper I turned in at Harvard, I would submit a little newsletter about how the paper was written...
...script which was all male. They basically rewrote the script, and they were looking at it and thought, wouldn't it be great if the hero winds up being this girl you don't expect. They just kind of did that because they thought it would be a good plot surprise, it was written exactly like if it was for a man. That's the biggest mistake people make, when they write the woman's part it gets all schmaltzy and stupid. If you want to write a great part for a woman, just write it for a man, without...
...officer will have on the life of the College. The extremely troubling part is the instant reaction of some to bring in skin color and racism. Must we really be so petty? This is not a vast right-wing conspiracy or the work of a prejudiced Harvard plot. Not everything is about race. I was glad to see that issues of skin color never came up in Burton's election, so why should they come up in his fall...
...because, as that plot notes--updating MTM's practical feminism--it's rare for two sharp older women to show their stuff on TV, and Moore, 63, proves when she has the chance here that she's still one of the most brilliant and sadly underutilized comedic actresses around. It'd be great to have her back in prime time--please God, in a different show--and should that happen, we'd all wish her to break a leg. Just go easy on that capitatum...