Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assassination. Foster and his chief aide Robert Blackburn, who was severely wounded by shotgun fire in the SLA attack, were so popular with Oakland liberals and virtually every Oakland community group that many West Coast leftists were certain that the SLA was a CIA or right-wing plot to provoke an attack on the Left...
...worked in such shadowy ways that no one, least of all Solzhenitsyn, was able to establish the secret police's role in these conspiracies. Since his expulsion from the Soviet Union last February, the writer has uncovered one such KGB plot that could have led to his arrest on treason charges. In the following article written expressly for TIME-the first he has published since coming to the West-Solzhenitsyn provides a detailed example of how the secret police can threaten the lives of Soviet dissidents...
...Burgess novel is frequently an embarrassment of riches, a kind of conspicuous consumption of exotic plot thickeners, linguistic games, disturbing tragicomedy, Manichaean trampoline acts and Christian and mythological symbolism. Thematically speaking, anything goes-as Burgess demonstrated three years ago in MF, a novel of contemporary incest based on an Algonquin Indian myth. In his latest offering, Napoleon Symphony, the author, who is also a serious composer, has reached for everything from kazoos to pipe organs. The result is a mock epic about the career of Napoleon Bonaparte that sometimes reads like Dickens, sometimes like Tennyson and Wordsworth, with an occasional...
...fairy tales the prince sometimes saves his skin and pushes the plot forward by turning into a succession of wild creatures. Trapped on a cliff, he may become a magpie and fly away. Blocked by a lake, he is transformed into a silver fish who swims under the window of a disconsolate princess in time to catch the golden ring she drops and be turned into a prince again. Somewhat the same sort of trick is managed in this beautifully controlled first novel...
...pointing up parts of the transcript that show the President in the best light. "In all the thousands of words spoken," it says, "even though they are often unclear and ambiguous, not once does it appear that the President of the U.S. was engaged in a criminal plot to obstruct justice...