Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...original play will tell you, are the surprising deceptions which reveal themselves every half-hour or so. Andrew Wyke, an English mystery writer (Sir Laurence Olivier), is at his Gothic estate when his wife's lover, a hairdresser named Milo Tindle (Michael Caine), arrives. Wyke proposes a shrewd plot: he will help Tindle "steal" the Wyke jewels, in order to defraud the insurance company. But that, we find, is not quite Wyke's real goal. And, a still later clever-and-bold twist tells us what Wyke really wants is not what he really wants. And in that fashion...
THURSDAY: An American Family. The Loud family. subjects of a seven-month documentary analysis, take a vacation, separately. CH. 2. 9 p.m. Color. 60 min. Love Story. No, not that one. This 1944 English movie with striking plot similarities to a certain Harvard recruiting film has an ailing concert pianist in a doomed love affair with a blind RAF officer...
...Have and Have Not. Lauren Bacall's first screen appearance was in this classic Bogart film. Ernest Hemingway and director Howard Hawks worked out changes in the plot of Hemingway's novel. Then William Faulkner wrote the screenplay and Hawks directed with his tongue in his cheek. The filming was spontaneous and the plot got lost, bolling down to Bogart and his tough, sexy dame accompanied by Hoagy Carmichael and his honky-tonk...
...Plot. Few Presidents have escaped vilification while in office, but L.B.J. got more than his measure. He was denounced as vain, tyrannical, vindictive, sly, crude. The attack was so harsh and sweeping because Lyndon Johnson resembled a cast of characters more than a single person...
Somewhat later Touré told a plausible story of murderous rivalries within Cabral's independence movement. The mastermind of the plot, said Touré, was Inocentio Camil, a top aide in Cabral's African Party for the Independence of (Portuguese) Guinea and Cape Verde (islands), known by its initials in Portuguese as PAIGC. As the Guinean leader told it, the assassins, after killing Cabral, kidnaped several other party members, tortured them, marched them aboard a fishing boat belonging to the PAIGC "navy," and sailed out of Conakry harbor bound for Bissau, the capital of Portuguese Guinea. Tour...