Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...almost as many hours, the cast of this show prattles prosaically but interminably about whether it is more significant to hang, burn or continue with the business of living in the dreary Middle Ages. By the end of it all, the resolution of these and other conflicts in the plot seems less important than the necessity to stretch one's legs...
...that very moment, as it happened, Spanish officials were investigating an abortive plot to overthrow the democratic government of Premier Adolfo Suárez and bring back authoritarian rule. The conspiracy, code-named Operation Galaxia after the café in which it was hatched, involved five officers in the paramilitary Civil Guard, the National Police and the army. Although details were sketchy, the plans apparently called for sympathetic members of the police to besiege Moncloa Palace, the seat of government, hold Suárez hostage and install their own people in power. The target date: Nov. 17, the day King...
...plot was thwarted when loyal officers got wind of it and warned Suárez. By nightfall on Nov. 16, a 100-man special operations force had moved into position to protect the palace, and Suárez had called in all his top military and police commanders and Defense Ministry officials. Meanwhile, two of the suspected plotters and a dissident general were arrested...
Spanish officials tended to dismiss the importance of the plot, but there was no question that the government was concerned about the restiveness of the right-as well as by terrorist activity by Basque separatists. Over the past two months, Basque gunmen have killed 23 people, including onetime Franco Judge José Francisco Mateu, 58, who was shot down on a Madrid street. Last week three carloads of terrorists roared up to a police barracks outside Bilbao and machine-gunned 30 men who were playing soccer. Two were killed and eleven wounded...
...cast with the whole thing. The story of "The Lass that Loved the Sailor" below her station--propelled by Gilbert's jabs at pomp and middle-class mediocrity--still fills an evening. But it was the deliberate self-conscious irony that made something out of Pinafore's obviously inane plot--the hundreds of little jokes in the script that combine to take all the starch out of the Victorian stuffed shirt...