Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Getting Married seems to justify all the cliche derogations with which Shaw's detractors have made themselves so tiresome. The characters are hypothetical examples, points of view, types, or paradoxes, perfunctorily humanized: dry and lifeless talking automatons. And how they do talk! They do not even pause for a plot; there is nothing but bickering and quibbling and squabbling and beating around the bush all night...
...flames. He blamed the mutiny on Lieut. General Janssens, who, he said, had refused to accept proposals for the Africanization of the army; he blamed the scare about Soviet "invaders" on Belgian agents, and summoned the Belgian ambassador to make the fantastic charge that he had uncovered a Belgian plot to murder him. "The assassins were discovered and arrested in my residence," cried Lumumba. "They were armed to the teeth." Everything that was happening, Lumumba insisted, was a Belgian plot to discredit the Congolese government...
Published 500 years ago "as an aid and comfort to women in love," Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron reputedly contains every basic plot ever written. It has provided aid and comfort for novelists, short story writers, dramatists, Hollywood and TV hacks. Now Boccaccio has been set to the dance. At Italy's Nervi Festival, Russian-born Choreographer Leonide Massine last week presented the premiere of his Human Comedy, a three-hour interpretation of nine of Boccaccio's lustiest tales...
Seeing Henry IV is somewhat like entering a theatre late and leaving it early: one comes after the plot has been set in motion and does not stay to see it resolved. And so, one complaint about the Phoenix Theatre productions of the second and third parts of the tetralogy is external to the productions themselves--they are not preceded by Richard II and, short of a trip to Central Park for Joseph Papp's production, one cannot see Henry V after Part II. In these circumstances, it is all the more remarkable that Stuart Vaughan has achieved balanced...
...project that everyone hopes the new government will continue to support is a vast expansion starting late next year. The plans are to start work on a handsome permanent campus on a 12,000-acre plot that was donated by the Menderes government. The land is now filled with wheat and grazing sheep. But METU's visionaries expect it to be the seat of a great university city with a student population of 12,000 and an overall population of 20,000. And they look on it as the model for a succession of similar schools that will some...