Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...speeches to religious groups, Elizabeth Dole tells the story of Esther, the Old Testament heroine confronted with a harrowing choice. When Esther, the wife of the Persian King Xerxes, learns of a plot to kill all the Jews in the kingdom, she has a decision to make: To try to save her people, should she risk her life by revealing to the king that she is a Jewess? Or should she remain silent, deny her faith and preserve her wifely prestige and power? After much soul searching, Esther chooses faith...
...core of it, you almost have to disappear. But last week he shed his cherished invisibility, when instead of managing the President's problems, he became one himself. It was revealed that federal prosecutors plan to name Lindsey an "unindicted co-conspirator" in an alleged plot to hide from the irs large cash withdrawals by Clinton's 1990 gubernatorial campaign, which Lindsey served as treasurer...
...staple soap-opera plot line of the '70s: a young woman meets a young man to whom she is inexorably drawn, but to her horror she soon discovers that they are brother and sister. That a contemporary drama (one that is unconnected to Aaron Spelling) could fuel itself with such a story line seems absurd. That it would succeed in doing it so artfully is an unanticipated pleasure...
...insider and Everygal all at once. For although O'Donnell has purchased Helen Hayes' former New York estate and pals around with Madonna, she can still work up a Nebraska housewife's enthusiasm for soap-opera star Susan Lucci, with whom she passionately discussed All My Children plot lines from more than 10 years ago on her premiere show. Unlike David Letterman, O'Donnell doesn't seem to be forcing a good mood; nor does she exploit guests as foils for her own comedy. She can talk to them rather than at them because she actually goes to the movies...
...come together so readily. Hammett was crucial to her success. When she began writing plays, he typed them (in those days she was a $15-a-week manuscript reader; he was a famous author). He slaved over her first hit, The Children's Hour, giving her the plot, goading her to sharpen the language and making her exaggerated gambits more realistic. Meanwhile, his own fiction was languishing; weakened by drink and pulmonary disease, he published only one book, The Thin Man, after he met Hellman...