Word: scenarioed
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...life of the young evangelist: the nunnery is inter cut with a modern orphanage, Joan's monk father with a back-country Bible thumper, and so on. Invention frequently flags, and there are great barren stretches of the movie that contain no contemporary parallels whatever, presumably because the scenario could invent no 20th century equivalents for the Saxons or the intrigues of the papal court under Leo, who is zestfully portrayed by Trevor Howard...
...could not have gone better for the Republicans, even the street disturbances which injected a smattering of spontaneity into an otherwise preordained scenario. For three days, Republican leaders had been praising Richard Nixon as a man of warmth, moderation and sensibility. They had called out to discontent Democrats to join the Nixon bandwagon. Most of all, they had created a strained comparison between the clean-cut, exuberant, All-American kids tagged Young Voters for the President and the long-haired, dungareed McGovernites who had filled Miami Beach six weeks before...
...dared to bolt from the fold--indeed they would not have been in Miami Beach in the first place if they did dare--and their week was one of idle frustration. Everything was settled before they arrived. Their role was predetermined and precisely scheduled. They fit neatly into the scenario, but beyond a certain point they became unneeded. For a small delegation there were no parties at luxurious Miami Beach homes, no visits with Party bigwigs. There was only a mid-priced hotel and five perfunctory sessions at Convention Hall...
...tells it, anyway. There is always a nagging suspicion when talking to Downey that he is spinning out a new scenario with every sentence...
...Complex Scenario. Ellsberg even contemplates the possibility that he is a war criminal similar to Albert Speer, the intelligent, cultivated humanist who was Hitler's architect. He recalls attending a seminar on war crimes and thinking "that I was the only person present who was a potential defendant." It is difficult to take this possibility seriously. Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon papers for what he feels is the good of the country; he may also have been trying to rid himself of what he sees as a damned spot. But his view is too schematic and bears the cold stamp...