Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...McDonald's is a Commie plot to get at us from within (our stomachs...
...officials of the U.S. Department of Justice" from giving out any information on the case. If the Justice officials denied leaking material, the lawyers asked for a full hearing to "determine the truth." The rationale of Agnew's attorneys was that the department was involved in a plot "to drive the Vice President from office...
...publicly assailing Henry E. Petersen as the key figure in a plot to ruin him, Spiro Agnew is taking on a formidable opponent. A savvy bureaucratic infighter who has risen higher in the Justice Department than any other civil service employee, Petersen has many influential defenders in Washington. He is the plain speaking, rugged Chief of the Criminal Division, whose engagingly blunt testimony before the Senate Watergate committee won the respect of millions of television viewers...
...failure was racked up with little help from le grand Charles. "You can't keep De Gaulle under glass," he would declare whenever security got too tight. Fortunately for the French President, many of the assassination attempts sound as if they were concocted by Gordon Liddy. One zany plot called for poisoning the Communion Hosts at the village church in Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, where De Gaulle attended Mass. The idea was discarded after the plotters realized that the first person to receive a Host would keel over dead and give the scheme away. And there...
...equally persistent Michael Winner, who spins out at least a couple of features a year, most recently a vehicle for Burt Lancaster (Scorpio) as well as another one for Bronson (The Mechanic). Here Winner attempts to counterbalance Branson's concrete immobility by immersing him in a plot full of flash and frenzy. It is a mostly futile effort. The script, about a rogue cop, is patterned closely enough on Dirty Harry to be called Grubby Lou. There is a series of slaughters, apparently having to do with mob warfare, that keeps Lou (Bronson) shuttling between New York...