Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days after the torture session and before Alex Rackley was murdered, Lonnie McLucas had numerous opportunities to "do something" about Alex Rackley's situation. State's Attorney Markle considered McLucas' failure to do something, along with the three actions which he admitted performing, proof of his complicity in a plot to murder Rackley; tree likelihood of his explanation depends on the context in which one sees the Black Panther Party, Lonnie McLucas and George Sams...
...Peggy Hudgins (who suffers severely from arthritis and who still has not been allowed to see a doctor of her own choice) except their occasional presence in the Kimbro apartment and their knowledge that Rackley had been maltreated. These facts obviously do not necessarily mean complicity in a plot to murder Rackley. Ericka Hudgins' voice is on the tape recording Sams ordered made of the torture session; this does not seem to be proof of complicity, either...
...England, home. "I must have stamina." Stamina indeed. The occasion also marked the publication in England of Agatha's 80th novel, Passenger to Frankfurt. "I call the book an extravaganza," she said, "but evidently it is not quite as extravagant or fantastic as I had supposed." Why? The plot involves a fictional event that this month became fact: the hijacking of four passenger airliners in Africa...
...enjoy-or merely endure-Italian opera, especially Verdi, a word-for-word acquaintance with the libretto is not essential. Most listeners will be able to navigate the critical junctures of the average plot by developing a familiarity with a handful of catch phrases. Such verbal adornments keep the melodrama moving and can be used to tell almost any story. As in the following dialogue -drawn entirely from Verdi's Ernani -which took place between an opera-loving wife and a bored husband on opening night at the Met. SCENE...
Here's the plot: A preppy jock from Winthrop House meets, falls in love with, and marries over his father's objections a beautiful but poor Cliffie from Cranston, Rhode Island on a music scholarship, but she dies of leukemia...