Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tell him that he was under attack last week. No sooner had the Russian President left Moscow on another of his notorious unannounced holidays -- this time to the Black Sea resort of Sochi -- than rumors filled the capital that his parlous state of health had inspired a coup plot. The crisis evaporated when the Kremlin launched a propaganda blitz to demonstrate that, at least for the moment, Yeltsin was still in command of his faculties. But the larger question of whether the Russian leader is in command of the country remains wide open...
...latest alarm was set off by a "confidential" document published in a Moscow paper supposedly describing a plot to depose Yeltsin by three prominent officials: Deputy Prime Minister Oleg Soskovets, Chief of the General Staff Mikhail Kolesnikov and Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov. According to the memo, the coup would kick off in March or April with a television broadcast documenting Yeltsin's health problems and excessive drinking. The dramatic revelations would give parliament a pretext to remove the President, replacing him with Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin until elections could be held...
...mixture does not work, partly because the historical and the personal plot lines that Vollmann imagines to be parallel simply are not. One of the former is the death in 1846 of Sir John Franklin and all the members of his British navy Arctic expedition, sent to find the Northwest Passage. Vollmann relates that event to a glum romance in present time between one of the author's fictional alter egos, whom he calls Captain Subzero, and a young, deaf Inuit woman named Reepah. Vollmann insists at length that Subzero, an & Arctic tourist who, as Vollmann himself did, makes...
...struck by how the personnel have blended together. There was once a black neighbor (Vanessa Williams); she has moved away. Michael and Jane were initially struggling young marrieds; in short order they became free-lancing singles just like everyone else. With the exception of one gay character (whose plot significance is minimal), the pieces for mixing and matching are interchangeable, and thus the combinations are unlimited...
Here's the plot: six men in balck suits and cheap sunglasses are hired by a big guy to pull of a diamond robbery. The cops show up at the heist too soon and a couple of the theives ge kille. Back at headquarters, the thieves' big question is, who ratted...