11.   In both, whenever the plot turns to the Taylors, it seems surprising they are still around in this story.

12.   Its plot turns out to be even more implausible than the drama now playing out on cable news networks, and a good deal less compelling.

13.   Modine is a strong enough presence to hold things together, even when the plot turns extra silly.

14.   Once again, the plot turned less on the extravagant horrors than upon the lifelike picture of a harried reporter whose nose for news leads him into dangerous places.

15.   The plot turns and tangles ever more wildly up to a strewed-about ending that suggests a work not finished but decamped from.

16.   THE plot turns on the fate of a captured American captain who is also the nephew of a Congressman.

17.   The plot turns on the psychiatric treatment of a famous artist who suffers from the delusion that he is human.

18.   The plot turns on a government plan to evacuate the town for use as a nuclear testing site.

19.   Television stations are deluged with thousands of letters each month from viewers begging for more soap operas or asking how the plots turn out.