Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...already talked to committee investigators for 25½hours. Stokes had said he wanted to put him on the stand to question him about Raoul, the mystery man in the prisoner's story (and perhaps imagination) who, Ray has claimed, drew him into the King assassination plot. But such a scene, with Ray on camera and all the conspiracy buffs waiting for remarks to support their theories, is "way down the line," said Stokes...
...stock-market crash on the public mood a few weeks later, it managed a healthy 234-performance run. It has plenty of fine music and some good lyrics. The main trouble lies in its book, which is silly and amorphous (the same, in sooth, might be said about the plot of many a grand opera...
...plot--such as it is--in which the signing-waitress in her father's Hoboken beer-garden, on losing her boyfriend, essays the New York stage and becomes a celebrity, is based to a considerable degree on the actual life of the show's star, Helen Morgan (1900-41), who told Kern and Hammerstein about her early years as a chanteuse in a German-style beer-garden named Adeline's. (A film biography of Morgan's life was made in 1957, starring Ann Blyth and Paul Newman...
...week's end 28 members of the board of directors of the National Gay Task Force, representing a number of homosexual organizations throughout the country, met in New York City to plot a nationwide strategy. Activists in San Francisco, Chicago, New York, New Orleans, Houston and San Antonio were ready to picket Bryant if she turned...
...Latin America (12), and NBC does not maintain a bureau anywhere in Africa. "We concede that an imbalance of information exists in some parts of the world," says U.P.I.'s Stevenson. "But we don't concede that this imbalance is part of any imperialistic plot hatched in our New York office...