Word: plot
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Prokofiev's ballet Romeo and Juliet has been a favorite of Russian audiences ever since it was premiered at Leningrad's Kirov Theater in 1940. It has plenty of pageantry, a familiar, heart-wrenching plot sufficiently removed from the realities of the Socialist state to be acceptable on all levels, and a fat part for Russia's legendary Prima Ballerina Galina Ulanova, now 46. The Russians, well aware that...
Australia's eminent London-born Maestro-Composer Sir Eugene Goossens, 62, caught with a load of indecent films, photos and books at Sydney Airport (TIME, March 26), was fined a maximum $225 for bringing "prohibited imports" Down-Under. But Sir Eugene's lawyer hinted at a thickening plot: blackmailers had forced Goossens to haul the pornography from Europe...
...moderate attitude toward defeated Peronistas; after long illness; in Buenos Aires' Central Military Hospital. Soft-spoken General Lonardi spent a year (1947-48) in Washington as Argentina's representative on the Inter-American Defense Board, was forced out of the army in 1951 for allegedly plotting against Peron. Jailed for eight months in 1952 as leader of an anti-government plot, he continued to organize anti-Peron forces, and on Sept. 17, 1955 revealed himself in a dramatic radio broadcast as "leader of the forces of liberation...
Oddly enough, the picture also has a plot. The story connects all these curious elements in much the same way as the numbered dots in a newspaper puzzle can be linked up to form an animal figure. In this case the observer soon realizes that he is working...
...Mobile Museum. What revenge Artos takes when he returns to find himself cuckolded may be left to the discovery of readers whose hair does not curl easily. The props with which Author Treece outfits his plot appear to be as accurate as a mobile museum of medieval antiquities, and he is lavish with local color, mostly bloodred. Some will doubtless regret Treece's crockery-clattering upsetting of the old round table. But the fact is that while good King Arthur could exist only in storybooks, Artos the Bear has enough gristle-and-bone reality to have actually galloped across...