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The great Alfred Hitchcock used the word "macguffin" to describe that object, the pursuit of which drives the plot of the story forward.— ZDNET.com.au
And just as LOTR has the ring, our still-evolving NBN bid has its own macguffin - Australia's copper local loop, that had lain dormant for 100 years - until it was hungrily picked up in a massive IPO.— ZDNET.com.au
Anyway, we have to crack down on people who have the wrong attitude toward our society - not obsess over the macguffin of guns.— The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
I'm currently using a lisping lizard / man teenager as an NPC / macguffin in the Encounter Critical game I'm running (think sleestack crossed with Milhaus).— theRPGSite
a woman - reduced seemingly to nothing more than a macguffin / excuse to send the main character on a glorified rampage of mayhem for us to all cheer along to torture and sadism with a rather bland and clear deliniation of good and evil giving him seemingly solid moral authority?— FlickFilosopher.com
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