Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stop before a wide white building with green onion domes. Out of the car and into the incense-filled Russian Orthodox Church filed Pavel Ivanovich Ershov, Soviet minister to Israel, and some of his top staff aides. The churchgoing Communists were adding some new wrinkles to an old plot they had inherited from the czars...
...scheme of wresting the Jerusalem patriarchate away from his church's liturgical twin, the Greek Orthodox Church. The best he could do was to wean a few Christian Arabs away from the Greek church. But the czars, eager to extend their power through the Middle East, kept the plot boiling. In 1860, the Russian Palestine Society was founded. Its main business: buying up property in Jerusalem and Nazareth and running a theological seminary where the students boned up on power politics when they were not chanting their Kyrie eleisons. It also guided pilgrims around the Holy Land...
There was a myth about America . . . and what a myth!-one rubbed one's eyes at the crude stereotypes that stood for the characters, and the vulgar comic-book drama that passed for the plot...
...Devil Makes Three (MGM) tries to dress up a postwar plot about a new German Fuehrer with some very old-hat movie melodrama...
Summing Up. With its suspenseless and irrelevant plot, Danae probably has little chance of repertory performance outside Germany or Austria. But the production, with its gilt-encrusted costumes and scenery, and its overflow audience, neatly summed up the Salzburg...