Word: plotting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...whacked around by Donnie, the inbred ingrate. When she complains to a cop about him, the cop offers this blithe appraisal: "He's high-strung." No more so than the script, by Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Epperson; it is given to violent outbursts amid its sullen patches, and plot twists that don't strain plausibility so much as ignore...
...fact, some thriller fans may feel that Wilson drags out the suspense a tad longer than is strictly necessary. But more patient readers will find plenty to divert them along the way. Coelho, for example, is not simply a plot functionary but an interesting and sympathetic character in his own right, a widower still grieving for his wife, killed a year earlier in a car accident, and uneasily trying to raise a daughter about the same age as the murder victim. And Wilson's descriptions often achieve epigrammatic power. Here is Felsen visiting bombed-out Berlin near...
...Plot has never been the sharpest arrow in [the author's] quiver, and [this book] holds true to form. It might, like...earlier works, be called a novel of ideas, but that is too bloodless a description... [The writer] portrays people with ideas--sometimes good, sometimes wacky--bumping into one another and sparking unpredictable reactions...
...event falls on Dec. 23 and is thought by FBI analysts to be of particular significance to radical Jihadists such as OSAMA BIN LADEN. According to one FBI official, as many as three aborted terrorist events may have been intended for around that night last Ramadan, including an alleged plot to bomb U.S.S. The Sullivans when it refueled in Aden on Jan. 3, 2000. Increasing the worry this year is the flurry of preparations for the impending Inauguration of George W. Bush, the son of the man who waged the Persian Gulf War. The FBI's crisis command center...
...Well, the attacks in the Presevo Valley area are a campaign issue for all the parties in the Yugoslav election. Milosevic's party is using them to propagate conspiracy theories, saying it's another American plot to dismember Serbia. For President Kostunica's coalition, this has been a chance to prove that they can handle this sort of crisis in a different way than the former regime, and actually cooperate with the international community to solve the problem. The problem is that the guerrillas have no interest in giving up. And of course the wider Kosovo Albanian population, even...