Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...down to serious work until this summer. He then called up Lyons and asked a few pointed questions: "I don't remember the book too well-any jive going on? Is there some jungle [i.e., conflict]? There's gotta be some sweetness and fruit." With the plot straight in his mind, the Duke sat down and dashed off a four-part suite with typically cryptic subtitles: Miss Fits Blues, Schwiphti, Zweet Zurzday, Lay-By. "That last," explained the Duke, "is an emergency parking area by the roadside of England. See how it all fits...
Hong Kong (ABC) is a comic strip come to life about a U.S. foreign correspondent. The opening episode involved more or less comic sailors, a Chinese fortune cooky (France Nuyen), and a plot that had everybody ducking back and forth across the Red frontier as if the Bamboo Curtain were equipped with a revolving door. Against one of the world's grimmest backdrops, the whole thing had an annoying air of schoolboys playing pranks. The show's one hope is that it may generate humor by parodying itself, and the first installment made a good start...
Much is made of Elizabeth Falk's Negro blood, and eventually it is an appeal to her concern for her people that induces her not to spill the beans about Poole. Yet the Negro issue is a straw man forcibly dragged into the plot; it does not belong. Another gratuitous element apparently was invented to give Betsy Blair something to do. In her role as Mrs. Poole, Betsy minces on stage, makes several totally inane and unconnected remarks to two office secretaries and the baffled Poole, and then exits--for good. As one mystified man behind me said after...
...unusual book on several counts. The author, fortunately for him. is unknown. "Abram Tertz," his pseudonym, is the name of the Jewish hero of a ballad that passed the rounds in Moscow during the wave of anti-Jewish propaganda officially stirred up over the fake "Doctors' Plot" against Stalin's life in 1952. The book's manuscript was smuggled out of Russia to a group of anti-Communist Polish émigrés in France...
Cancer Sticks. The Trial Begins is classed as "socialist surrealism'' by the editors of Encounter, where it first appeared in English last January. The label is just. Part of the complex plot is focused on Marina, a Bolshy bitch who is married to Globov, a public prosecutor, and model of Soviet Russia's successful man; she is also probably the mistress of Karlinsky, the philosophizing public defender. Marina procures an abortion for no reason except that motherhood might spoil her figure. Mad with rage when his wife brutally tells him of this, Globov smashes everything in their...