Word: plot
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What an auspicious beginning it had: a captivating plot that centered on the murder of a 15-year-old prostitute; suspects who included a malevolently elegant businessman, a sleazy psychiatrist and a drug-addicted movie star; and, in the starring role, impassioned defense attorney Teddy Hoffman, played by Daniel Benzali as a man of such unwavering rectitude that he made lawyer jokes seem as gauche as postmortem Nixon bashing. And yet with all that going for it, Steven Bochco's Murder One finished last season as the 74th-ranked show in network prime time and seemed fated for dismissal...
...Novak presents her remade self to Jimmy Stewart. She is dressed in a gray suit and a white blouse, and her hair is done up in a seascape of blond waves. Stewart has wholly recreated her in the image of the dead woman he loved. Only, as the plot twists, and though Stewart does not yet know it, this is the dead woman he loved. By making her over he thinks that he has bought a second chance at happiness, but he has doomed them both...
Riley also plans to create maps of campus that plot all of the crimes that have occurred in the area. The HUPD is working in conjunction with the Cambridge Police Department, the city of Cambridge, the Graduate School of Design and Harvard Planning and Real Estate to create...
Colors become jarring plays on the mood or plot of the scene: Cynthia cannot believe that Hortense, who is black, is her daughter and calls her just as Hortense is wearing a white facial mask -- highlighting her misguided assumptions. In the final scene, Maurice's peaceful, blue shirt, set against an innocent turquoise mush of wallpaper, sets one up to be surprised at his suddenly unrestrained response to the family's conflicts...
...happened? The Western media were simply taken in by a lie--an easily provable lie--put out by the P.L.O. and the Arab League. At Arafat's urging, the League issued within 48 hours of the tunnel's opening a declaration calling the tunnel "part of an Israeli Zionist plot to destroy the Aqsa mosque [and] set up the Temple of Solomon...