Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prison staff. There is no doubt that this tremendous support and the publicity it brought Davis's trial influenced the manner in which the judge conducted the trial. Furthermore, it helped to head off a conviction that would have been based upon circumstantial evidence and a ludicrous plot concocted by the government...
Juggernaut updates the Noon plot device by combining it with that most lamentable of contemporary genres, the catastrophe epic. This time, it is a floating city that is in danger: the liner Britannic, with 1,200 passengers aboard. The mad bomber is ... well, let's just say disgruntled. No use ruining the surprise...
...also picked up liabilities, however, and as she closes in on the vice presidency, these return to haunt her. Her most dangerous enemy turns out to be the most unusual of all--an incorruptible, determined Justice Department lawyer who has uncovered an Agnewesque construction company plot...
...Tory Plot. His set piece was a mixture of soothing assurances that no one need fear the future under Labor, and mocking, biblically salted sarcasm directed at the Conservatives. If things were not going to get substantially better overnight, he would say, neither were they going to grow much worse. Talk of economic crisis was mostly a Tory plot. Said he before a suburban audience last week: "What the people want, what every family needs, is a bit of peace and quiet so that they can plan for the future on a basis of real security for the whole family...
...English at Columbia and Oxford). He has written a few TV scripts and screenplays (Sex and the Single Girl). He also wrote a play, We Bombed in New Haven, a dramatic indictment of the moral blindness of the Viet Nam War that demonstrated the author's difficulties with plot...