Word: plot
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...achievement is particularly honored in Greece, where nearly every village has a Fleming Street. Lady Fleming, 62, is a noted bacteriologist in her own right and a World War II heroine of the Greek resistance. Thus when the police were tipped off that she was involved in a plot to spring their most closely guarded prisoner, they tried to frighten her out of the idea. She was picked up and questioned for 14 hours about a party she had reportedly given last year for underground dissidents. Then she was released...
Lady Fleming either did not tumble to the hint or did not scare easily enough. Last week she was sentenced by a Greek military tribunal to 16 months in prison for her role in an aborted plot to free Alexandros Panaghoulis. 32, who was convicted in 1968 of trying to blow up Greek Strongman George Papadopoulos' automobile. Found guilty and sentenced to lesser terms were a lawyer friend of Panaghoulis', a prison guard and two Americans, Mrs. Athena Psychoghiou of Minneapolis, a friend of Panaghoulis' brother, and John Skelton, a Pennsylvania theology student, who received a suspended...
...plot of "Billy the Mountain" is as intriguing as the music. Billy is a mountain very upset at being ripped off, i.e.,his picture has appeared on thousands of post cards but he has never received any royalties. However, one day, a man in a white Cadillac drives up and gives Billy his royalties. And Billy thus begins one of the great picaresque adventures of our time. (At one point offing two FBI agents on the way from Los Angeles to New York). Zappa exploits the theme to poke fun at just about everything from vacations to super-heroes...
...think it's wrong to ignore the sense of fear and melancholy that really does pervade the subtext of On the Town. The plot itself is simple enough. Three sailors--Ozzie (Bill Gerber), Gabey (Kurt Peterson), and Chip (Jess Richards)--are on their first, one-day leave in New York City. They're cornfed types and, although between the three of them they don't want to miss a bit of what the city has to offer, they're mostly interested in girls. Particularly Miss Turnstyles, a subway poster girl with whom Gabey instantly falls in love, and who becomes...
...most annoying nitwits of the new situation travesties. In Good Life, a stockbroker and his wife (Larry Hagman and Donna Mills) check out of the bourgeoisie for the presumed comforts of becoming scrape-prone butler and cook to an anachronistic family of plutocrats (David Wayne and Hermione Baddeley). The plot smacks of those 1930s films that had fun with the Depression. Teddy Bears attempts to cash in on the nostalgia binge for the by-now-boring '20s, playing the gangland speakeasy scene for slapstick laughs. An apter title for this show would be The Unwatchables...