Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some members of Congress said they would favor swift military retaliation against Iraq if it could be proved that Baghdad was behind a supposed plot to assassinate George Bush during his trip last month to Kuwait...
...Boomerang, are in discussions with New York University law professor Derrick Bell about making a movie version of a short story in Bell's book Faces at the Bottom of the Well. Bell's story is a sharp commentary on the way the legal system mistreats minorities. The plot: aliens buy all the blacks in America and transport them into outer space. Bell, who lost his job at Harvard Law School after taking an extended leave to protest the lack of minority women on the faculty, is also working on a TV project for PBS that deals with the Declaration...
...just as daring as and perhaps even more demanding than Lynch's series. Twin Peaks, for all its weirdness, was at bottom a simple murder mystery: Who killed Laura Palmer? Wild Palms is denser and more disorienting, a paranoid dream play that bombards us with freaky characters and mystifying plot twists, tying them together only hours later...
...INTELLIGENCE IS MAKING A CRASH EFFORT TO discover the roots of an alleged plot to assassinate former President Bush during his triumphant visit to Kuwait last month. Kuwaiti officials have arrested 16 people, including 11 Iraqi nationals, and have seized high-tech equipment and hundreds of pounds of explosives. According to the Washington Post, Kuwaiti officials say three attempts were planned, first a remote-controlled car bomb set to detonate as Bush arrived at Kuwait City, a second car bomb near a theater where Bush received an honorary doctorate, and last, a suicide attack by a man wrapped in explosives...
...minimal, shoddy-looking set (a white sheet with a painted Big Ben and a blue sky), we are introduced to Phileas Fogg (Colum Amory), the British explorer who one day decides to have his valet Gitano (Keith Barsky) pack his bags for a trip around the world. With the plot thus taken care of, we can get on with the music...