Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Government lots will be assigned not by rank but by the number of passengers arriving in each car. Surveillance will be placed on petroleum exports, which are minuscule in proportion to U.S. consumption but a prime source of suspicion to skeptics who still see the energy shortage as a plot...
...Lane, the lawyer and assassination-conspiracy buff. Real names of persons and places are used except where they would be most crucial. The conspirators-Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Will Geer and John Anderson among them-are assigned fictional names, but only the vaguest identides. Ryan, the force behind the plot, is wealthy; Lancaster apparently is a maverick intelligence operative; Geer, an elderly man who has oil interests. Such sketchiness satisfies the requirements of neither history nor drama...
...this were a film about another assassination-say, a plot to kill the board chairman of a large corporation-the tedium of Miller's direction, the dry rot of Trumbo's writing, would quickly do it in. Instead, the movie is kept going by the baleful novelty of being about Kennedy. Whatever factual points the movie might have made are inextricably mixed up in trappings that would have seemed awkward even in a creaky TV series like Foreign Intrigue. The existence of a double for Oswald is not made even dramatically credible; yet the movie and the assassination...
...wants to be an artist, makes the big break for dignity and free dom. Another, who wants to write, can not summon up that last demanding ounce of courage. That is about all there is to the plot, and it is not really enough...
Suddenly the radar operators leaned forward in amazement. Flocks of giant blips appeared on their screens--blips that could only signify B-52's, the biggest and most awesome weapon in the United States's arsenal. The operators began to calculate coordinates and plot trajectories, and their fears mounted as they did so: the bombers were not heading for the mountainous trails of Laos this time, or for the panhandle villages, or for army camps in the countryside. The operators alerted the air defense crews with special urgency. The B-52's were all heading for Hanoi--the first installment...