Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rosenfeld was arrested in 1991 after hatching a plot to build and sell IBM computers. He and some pals bought nearly $1 million worth of computer parts using credit-card numbers from strangers' credit reports. A Secret Service raid on Rosenfeld's Brooklyn, New York, home uncovered 176 credit reports stolen from TRW, a leading credit-rating company. He says he sold "thousands" of such reports to private investigators...
Assistant principal Jacqueline Greenhill happened by and found the crying girl. "You can tell when a student is really upset," she says. The girl led Greenhill to another student, who sent her to another who finally revealed the plot: two girls were planning to kill teacher Jan Kirk, 46, at the end of class that morning. Something about being embarrassed or insulted by Kirk the | day before. Other students, maybe a dozen or so, wagered $200 in lunch money that the two wouldn't do it. But only fools bet against peer pressure. And the bell was about to ring...
...Careful What You Wish For SENIOR OFFICIALS OF FATAH, YASSER ARAFAT'S P.L.O. faction, are telling of a plot that backfired on them. They say Fatah, not HAMAS, the Palestinian fundamentalist group, was responsible for the murder of an Israeli border policeman last month, which triggered the controversial expulsion from Israel of 415 alleged Hamas members. Fatah wanted to cause problems for its rivals in Hamas, which opposes the Middle East peace talks. Instead, the overreaction by the Israelis has aroused strong popular support for Hamas. P.L.O. representatives at the peace talks are refusing to continue...
Endless movie queues in 50 U.S. cities prove Jordan's taste is shared. For in The Crying Game he offered more than a plot twist, a whodunit or whoizit; he produced a parable about love, loyalty, identity, courage. And he created people who are more interesting when we know what they're hiding. He has filmgoers comparing impressions, debating motivations, arguing about fictional characters as if these were real folks worth caring for -- all those thoughtful, soulful responses that movies are supposed to provoke but rarely...
...applications on the drawing board that can turn the television set into a magic monitor straight out of a Star Trek episode. Suppose you turn on L.A. Law late, and you want to know what's going on. Merely push a button, and a bubble will appear explaining the plot. Push another, and it will even tell you the brand of Michael Tucker's suit. "My aim was to move the technology so far forward that there would be no debate about its worth," he says...