After a while, the multiple coincidences, which the screenplay admits are unlikely, cease to surprise, and the movie drifts into predictability.
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Or maybe, like Lee Harvey Oswald in Don DeLillo's " Libra ", Shearer is both real and invented-- a creature of multiple coincidences who seems at the same time to be operating in the service of a grand, impenetrable design.
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Despite his demeanor and determination, McFadden appears to be having a harder time conveying the intricacies of his defense _ which involves the suspected activities of a terrorist organization and multiple coincidences _ to a jury that looks at times befuddled and impatient.
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The novel is a " Horatio Alger-type story in which a virtuous vegetable-peddler discovers that his supposedly dead father is alive and rich . . . . " Baum drives the story with multiple coincidences, and ties them together at the end with a nod to God's providence . " Apparently the book did not catch on, for its author,'Suzanne Metcalf,'produced no more ."