Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gawk") Augello-accompanied him to the rally. The man in the purple shirt has so far occasioned the most suspicion, because he happened to stray from Colombo's side at the precise moment that the Mafia chieftain was shot, raising the possibility that his part in the plot may have been to leave Colombo vulnerable to Johnson's attack...
...industry has been hit by layoffs, slumping orders and a threatened collapse of Lockheed unless Congress approves federal loan guarantees, as the Administration has requested. Some Latin Americans, however, saw Washington's move as a typical capitalist plot. The U.S., charged Chile's Marxist President Salvador Allende, was out to "unleash an arms race" in Latin America. That did not, of course, keep Allende from accepting $5 million worth of U.S. State Department military-assistance credit last week for Chile's own armed forces. The money will be used to buy a Lockheed C-130 transport aircraft...
...will be closer to you from now on,'' he cries. Elsewhere he declares, "Do not talk Marx or Lenin or Trotsky when you speak of political thinkers. Abdel Rahman, Nkrumah, Sekoti Touré, Mao, Du-Bois, Fanon, Nyerere, Garvey, Lumumba, Malcolm, Guevara, Elijah, Abu Dekr will plot, have already plotted...
Many of QB VII's sins are standard for the genre. The prose is an illiterate shorthand: "Lou was a tall, thin man with a sleepy face whose dominating feature was seventy Sy Devore suits." The plot is interstitched with editorials, sermons and lessons in writing. On the latter subject one can hardly deny Uris his soapbox. He has always been a crude novelist. Yet Exodus is the sixth biggest bestselling novel of the century,* and QB VII, after wintering comfortably atop all the charts, is now second only to Exodus in the author's hardback sales...
...more than its plot, Big Jake is something of a family affair. The supporting cast includes such old Wayne cronies as Bruce Cabot and Harry Carey Jr. Cinematographer William Clothier has worked with Wayne at least half a dozen times before, and Director George Sherman guided Wayne through a series of two-reel westerns back in the early '30s. The film's producer is the Duke's oldest son, Michael, 36, and the air of reunion is reinforced by the presence on-screen of two other sons, John Ethan, 8, who appears as Jake's grandson...