Word: threading
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...narrative thread of this film reveals that no trick photography was used, one is stunned and then pressed into fits of laughter as he watches the great chase scene to stop a wedding in time. Lloyd jumps from one speeding vehicle to the next, each time missing what could be a devastating wreck...
From the point of view of structure, the play is remarkable. It is tight and economical. At the outset, we are plunged in medias res; and there are no scenes of comic relief. Everything bears directly on the main thread of the plot -- the interaction of the destinies of King Richard himself and of Bolingbroke who becomes Henry IV. We see Richard high on one end of a seesaw, and Bolingbroke on the other. And we sit mesmerized as we witness the inexorable and almost ritualistic shifts of the fulcrum from the force of incident or public opinion, until Bolingbroke...
...comfortably out in front in commerical hydrofoil development is Carlo Rodriquez, 51, a tall, reticent Sicilian engineer whose Spanish ancestors settled in Italy 150 years ago. Since 1958 Rodriquez has turned out 42 hydrofoil ferries at his 500-man Messina shipyard. Today, his aliscafi wing between Venice and Trieste, thread the fjords of Norway, link Caribbean islands, and are about to begin regular service between Montevideo and Buenos Aires. Last year Rodriquez sold $3,100,000 worth of hydrofoils; this year, with $1,800,000 in sales so far, he expects to do substantially better...
...year at 71, readers accustomed to spending at least part of each year in Barsetshire felt summer-homeless. But the novelist had left five chapters of a new book, and Writer C. A. Lejeune, former film critic for the London Observer, undertook to pick up the almost invisible plot thread. Fittingly enough, she ended the book with a huge 70th birthday party for Mrs. Morland, the dithery novelist who, readers justifiably suspected, more than slightly resembled Author Thirkell. After the last bit of cake has been eaten, there comes a final passage whose treacle might have been spooned...
...Wilson's friends number his roommate Mike, a genial caricature of an earnest economics major, who says of his future employers "It's not every day a bank gets a chance to have a summa," and a Groton-and-unspecified-club archetype named Peter, who calls himself the "narrative thread" of the show (it is a bald-faced lie). Several of these people have girls: Wilson a fresh-faced intense type, who could have graduated only from Putney; and Mike a pancake-faced, blase' type, who could have come from anywhere. Peter has none; he is going...