Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Grease has no plot; the scenario that connects the musical numbers is the arrival of a new girl at Rydell High, Sandy Dumbrowski (Susan Wood). After her summer romance with high school hot-shot Zuko, he ignores her in front of his gang of delinquent buddies. She is improbably accepted by the Pink Ladies, the school's group of wilder women, despite their scorn for her virginal bobby-sox image. The acting is competent but no one shines. Some genuine emotion or a bit of chemistry between the couples might have made the evening somewhat more bearable. The audience...
...that Tonya herself and her husband Jeff Gillooly were under investigation. On Thursday police in Oregon arrested her hulking bodyguard, Shawn Eckardt, 26, who went to high school with Gillooly. Eckardt's lawyer, Mark McKnight, said his client had admitted to authorities that he had taken part in the plot, but was "not smart enough" to have designed or carried out the plan. The police also arrested Derrick Smith, 29, another bruiser, described by neighbors as having a taste for wearing camouflage and "playing army." Both Eckardt and Smith were charged with conspiracy to commit the assault on Kerrigan. Eckardt...
...conspiracy might never have come to light were it not for the wildly assorted cast of characters who teach and study at Pioneer Pacific College, a small vocational school outside Portland. It was here that the players converged: Eckardt, the bodyguard who allegedly helped hatch the plot; Eugene Saunders, the young born-again pastor to whom Eckardt confessed, with a frightening telltale tape; and Gary Crowe, the private detective who ultimately blew the lid off the story...
...wanted to hear. Eckardt talked about a recent meeting before which, he boasted, "I swept the room" for bugs, then planted a tape recorder. With that Eckardt proceeded to produce a cassette and play it for the unsuspecting minister. According to Crowe, Saunders heard three people debating a grisly plot; one was Eckardt, one an unidentified man from Arizona, and the third person Eckardt identified as "Tonya Harding's husband...
...bodyguard of U.S. figure-skating champion Tonya Harding and two other men were arrested for the brutal assault on Harding's rival Nancy Kerrigan in Detroit. According to his lawyer, bodyguard Shawn Eric Eckardt told investigators that he had taken part in the plot to injure Kerrigan but denied being "smart enough" to plan...