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When people describe the plot of "American Buffalo," they usually say it's about inept small-time crooks who plan a heist and watch everything go wrong.

If you describe the plot of "Rantoul and Die" to a friend, as I did, you will probably find yourself muttering, "but it's still really funny, I swear".

Thus might Jim Thompson, or some other novelist of the all-American underbelly, describe the plot of a show that is traditionally regarded as one of the sunniest musicals ever.

And are you free September 24th — February/March?" The e-mail went on to describe the plot of "The Magistrate," a Victorian farce, from 1885, by Arthur Wing Pinero, which Nick wanted to produce on the Olivier stage.

As Deborah Eisenberg once put it, "The anatomical possibilities are limited, so a poorly written sex scene can be a little like hearing an 8-year-old describe the plot of his favorite movie".

This could describe the plot of any number of Hollywood thrillers, but there's a special breed of mind-bending movie that taps into the darker side of these anxieties at specific moments in history, and "The Manchurian Candidate" is the latest example.

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Because when he tries to describe the plots of his films concisely, Mr. Phillips said recently, "the one-liners on my movies sound really retarded".

In general, the students were able to describe the plots of the type they had created, noting the plot shape and identifying value clusters and outliers.

Writer describes the plot of the movie.

Each of her ongoing Movie People series of little wooden cutouts describes the plot of a movie, alongside painted silhouettes of the film's protagonists.

The writer describes the plot of the new "Rugrat" film and claims that children who once thrilled to Angelica's nasty schemes may be disappointed by her sentimental role.

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