Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...short, the implication of the Presidential Counsel that not once does it appear that the President was engaged in a criminal plot is not supported by the transcripts. On the contrary--while only a full trial by jury can ultimately determine guilt--it seems that an ordinary citizen could be indicted on this basis alone," the report concludes...
WEDDING IN BLOOD. Two married lovers (Stephane Audran, Michel Piccoli) are driven by their shared need and the transports of passion to commit murder. This woebegone plot, written and directed by the sometimes masterly Claude Chabrol (Le Boucher), needs all the voltage it can stand. From Chabrol and his stars, it gets only a few anemic charges. The paramours are intrepidly bourgeois, their longing for each other so squalidly selfish and narcissistic that every time they paw each other they seem to be polishing a mirror. They lavish the sort of affection and attention on each other that...
These three offenders are not engaged in an oddball plot to haunt their old victims. They are part of an unusual experiment in Minneapolis that aims for rehabilitation through restitution. Under the program, convicts sentenced for nonviolent property crimes live in a halfway house, take jobs and use part of their earnings to repay what they stole. Says Ron Johnson, supervisor of the Minnesota Restitution Center: "It's one thing to break into a garage. It's another to have to look the owner in the eye afterward. We're building a sense of responsibility...
...British intelligence agent (played with impeccable sangfroid by Michael Caine) discovers that his son has been kidnaped. The ransom demand is well over a million dollars worth of uncut diamonds-exactly the amount that Caine's intelligence unit was about to use to counter an arms-smuggling plot. The fact that the kidnapers know precisely what sum to ask for means there has been a leak at the highest level of security...
...daylights out of them with a cloth truncheon shaped like an oversize bologna, there is no stopping Scapino. Eventually caught out by the two old fogies, the superscamp gains their pardon, and hoodwinks the pair again, by pretending to breathe his last. At the end of the mazelike plot, everyone is wreathed in smiles, especially the audience...