Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bomb count since January 1957. Most of the attacks have been against Negroes, but. for the first time since a short-lived 1951 outbreak in Miami, the South's spare Jewish population (less than 1%) was suffering directly from the redneck dogma that integration is a Jewish plot. Since last November, bombs have landed at six Jewish centers and synagogues...
...specific use for the purchase has not been determined, but "the land is the significant part," Edward Reynolds '15, Administrative Vice-President, said yesterday. The house, occupying a sizable plot, is located on Kirkland Street, between New Lecture Hall and Beacon Street, and the University-owned Holden Green Apartments...
...gentle art of homicide good clean fun. Once again, in a role he played on Broadway for some 500 performances, Evans decided that he preferred his wife's money to his wife (Rosemary Harris), then saw his plans go agley in a monstrous inversion of his custom-built plot. Brilliantly adapted for TV by its playwright, Frederick Knott, Dial M was a marvel of mobility, leaped from pub to club to living room with movie-like ease, confirmed Producer-Director George Schaefer as a Hitchcockian master of the telltale closeup shot, and provided a triumphant finish for Hall...
...whole production. He finds little irony in the lines and focuses the humor on desire, social inhibitions, frustration, and zany hypocrisy. A sociology of sex emerges which stresses the primacy of simple desire over attempts to cloak it in social idealization. For any who don't already know the plot, girl meets boy meets girl meets boy and so on through ten scenes and ten partner changes (in one complete Viennese waltz around the dance floor of love.) Prostitute meets soldier who meets parlor maid who meets young gentleman who meets young wife who wants husband (her own) who meets...
After the plot is finally straightened out, Producer Douglas Fairbanks Jr., unable to resist hamming up his own road show, dashes onto the screen and swears the audience to secrecy. But by that time, even Director Michael (Around the World in 80 Days) Anderson does not seem to care one peseta's worth...