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Word: plot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Great Red Shark; they successfully infiltrate a National District Attorneys' Drug Conference; burn two hotels by charging exorbitant amounts on phony credit cards, intimidate room service girls into loading their room with grapefruit and 600 bars of Neutrogena soap; trace down directions to the American Dream to a grassy plot of land where a sleazy nightclub once stood; and encounter such characters as Savage Lucy, Lacerda the menacing Portuguese photographer, and the Vincent Black Shadow...

Author: By Martha Stewart, | Title: Doomservice | 7/10/1973 | See Source »

Moore is afflicted with coolness unto death; one half expects some plot revelation - a saliva test, perhaps - to explain that the bad guys somehow got him hooked before the picture started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dirty Trick | 7/9/1973 | See Source »

There is, for example, the vision-testified to but thus far neither proved nor disproved-of the nation's chief law-enforcement officer. Attorney General John Mitchell, casually listening to aides plot illegal wiretaps and break-ins, while at the same time overseeing various prosecutions of political dissenters for conspiracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: An Awful Lot of Lawyers Involved | 7/9/1973 | See Source »

...remains for his main plot to conclude the theme of the Jew's enemy-within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Everyman a Jew | 7/9/1973 | See Source »

...Cranko came to London at the age of 19; by the time he was 24 he had become principal choreographer of the Sadler's Wells Ballet. In 1961 he took over the mediocre Stuttgart Ballet. With his strong sense of theater and his ability to marry dance and plot, Cranko scored dramatic successes with such works as Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake and Eugene Onegin. The Stuttgart, under his direction, became one of the best companies in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 9, 1973 | 7/9/1973 | See Source »

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