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that its presentation in this country is part of a capitalist plot to boobify the American people ; ;
The success of his children's books was to become a source of considerable annoyance to Milne, whose self-avowed aim was to write whatever he pleased and who had, until then, found a ready audience for each change of direction: he had freed pre-war Punch from its ponderous facetiousness ; he had made a considerable reputation as a playwright ( like his idol J. M. Barrie ) on both sides of the Atlantic ; he had produced a witty piece of detective writing in The Red House Mystery ( although this was severely criticised by Raymond Chandler for the implausibility of its plot ).
Douglas Adams's 1982 science fiction comedy novel Life, the Universe and Everything – the third part of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series – features the urn containing the Ashes, as a significant element of its plot.
the plot takes place only in a gigantic megastructure / arcology simply called the City, which is still being expanded by its automatic systems.
Its unconventional unfolding of plot ( exemplified in its mathematical layout of dialogue ) and its stress on perception have analogs in De Palma's filmmaking.
However, the plot is generally less important than its witty dialogue.
Although secondary to its hack and slash gameplay, Castle of the Winds has a plot loosely based on Norse mythology, told with setting changes, unique items, and occasional passages of text.
Since this curl is not the same at every point, its plot is a bit more interesting:
The novel was critically well-received for its gripping plot, action, and atmosphere, and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1977.
Candide is characterised by its sarcastic tone, as well as by its erratic, fantastical and fast-moving plot.
* has as its plot the encounter between a Cathar girl and the leader of the concurrent Chlldren's Crusade Stephen of Cloyes.
Quadratic equation plot of showing its roots at and, and that the quadratic can be rewritten as
" Some however consider unpredictable behaviour to be realistic in tragedy: " everywhere in Euripides a preoccupation with individual psychology and its irrational aspects is evident .... In his hands tragedy for the first time probed the inner recesses of the human soul and let passions spin the plot.
The 2011 action-RPG Deus Ex: Human Revolution includes among its cast a news media personality named " Eliza Cassan ", who is shown interviewing other prominent characters at various points in the game's plot.
The documentary stated that Mountbatten and other members of the British Royal Family supported the plot and were involved in its planning.
Perhaps the most clearly formulaic plots characterize the romantic comedy genre ; in a book or film labeled as such, viewers already know its most basic central plot, including to some extent the ending.
The plot centers around a television journalist who, after being fired for his inadvertent role in inciting a post-robbery riot in Los Angeles, seeks to independently investigate the teleportation system for the flaws in its design allowing for such spontaneous riots to occur.
" Mike Bogue of American Kaiju said the film " not liv up to its potential ," but added that " colorful and elaborate spectacle eventually won me over " and " the main story thread dealing with the eventual reconciliation of the divorced couple adequately holds the human plot together.
The plot centers around a war between Earth and its colonies in space ; however, in contrast to the Universal Century continuity, the Gundam pilots of Gundam Wing are more closely allied to each other than they are to any particular side in the conflict unfolding around them.
The plot is usually set in a castle, an abbey, a monastery, or some other, usually religious edifice, and it is acknowledged that this building has secrets of its own.
Following the characteristic Gothic Bildungsroman-like plot sequence, the Female Gothic allowed its readers to graduate from “ adolescence to maturity ,” in the face of the realized impossibilities of the supernatural.
To this basic plot ( which comes from the Yahwist ) the Priestly source has added a series of covenants dividing history into stages, each with its own distinctive " sign ".

plot and twist
* A final twist in the plot
" Between seasons 8 and 12 ( under former show runner / executive producer Neal Baer ), the show has had characters change or even die as sort of a dramatic plot twist.
Both authors wrote plot twist endings, but O. Henry stories were much more playful.
In this draft, he made use of a new plot twist: Darth Vader claiming to be Luke's father.
Most of his fiction was in short story form, and usually featured a whimsical story line or ironic plot twist.
Preminger liked the high-society setting and the unusual plot twist but felt the work needed a major revision and offered to rewrite it with its author.
There's not a character, an event or a plot twist that one hasn't anticipated long before its arrival, which gives one the feeling of waiting around for people who are always late.
In her most recent " death ", the " Aunt May " who died shortly after learning of Peter's secret identity, was, in a widely-derided plot twist, revealed to be a " genetically-altered actress " who impersonated her while May was held captive by villains.
And the slight twist of tension which tightens around the principal character is lost in the middle of the picture when he is shelved for a dull stretch of plot.
Similarly, Douglas Clegg's Mordred, Bastard Son portrays the character as not only sympathetic but heroic ( he and Lancelot save Guinevere from a murderous plot ), and in a new twist, he is Lancelot's lover.
Even though the villain's body count is only two, the film's " whodunit " plot structure, knife-wielding and mentally disturbed killer, twist ending and ' stalking ' camera technique proved influential on films to come.
Like Leamas, the reader suspects neither Mundt's capture during the events of Call for the Dead, nor that he now is a British double agent, until the concluding plot twist at the trial.
Demand was high for each episode to introduce some new element, whether it was a plot twist or a new character, so as to maintain the readers ' interest.
" This plot twist is never resolved and has thus created a cliffhanger.
The show featured an unusual plot twist.
* A final twist in the plot
A plot twist that involved Homer being carried away to an eagle nest and being raised as a baby eagle was suggested for this episode by executive producer James L. Brooks, but they ended up going with Maggie being raised by bears instead.
One traveled to New York to check whether the World Trade Center had actually fallen — believing 9 / 11 to be an elaborate plot twist in his personal storyline.
The book ends with a then-unprecedented plot twist.
This twist is not merely a function of plot: it puts the whole concept of detective fiction on an armature and sculpts it into a dazzling new shape.
But when the two men finally meet, there is a plot twist, and the second man is also a Terminator.
Morris Zapp makes a cameo appearance in the last part of Nice Work, to add a plot twist where he tries to arrange for Robyn to have a job interview at his American university, Euphoric State ( a fictionalized UC Berkeley ), in order to stop his ex-wife from being a candidate for an open faculty position.
( Shmoos are usually portrayed as gender-neutral, although Capp sidesteps this issue to allow the comic plot twist.
It is usually employed as a plot twist that effectively undoes all the happenings of the episode.

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