Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would almost certainly die. By March 24, Republican Robert Griffin of Michigan warned Nixon that the Democrats needed to pick up only a dozen Republican defectors to carry that vote. From then on, the pro-Carswell Senate leaders and Administration liaison men met daily in the White House to plot strategy...
...made a speech in California which ended with "I'll see you in Chicago." Another was said to have suggested abducting the Chicago Chief of Police with the words, "Let's kidnap the big cheese and take him to the amphitheatre." Froines himself was charged with a "stink bomb plot." Abbic Hoffman was charged with inciting to "fornication" in Lincoln Park. "We all know Abbic," Froines said. "Abbie never used the word 'fornication' in his life...
...saga. Here it all is-indigent beginnings, ineffectual father, indomitable, solicitous and insufferable stage mother, fleabag hotels, one-night stands, the big chance with the kingpin producer, a smash hit at vaudeville's old Valhalla, the Palace, and at the final fadeout, on to Hollywood and immortality. The plot is as inflexibly mythic as the stock western...
Neither the book nor the film has a conventional plot. The players move from segment to segment, progressing in Ursula and Birkin's case to partial salvation, in Gudrun and Gerald's to personal destruction...
Thanks primarily to the considerable charm of the two leading players, the characters never get lost. Belmondo's boyish bravura and Annie Girardot's wily sexuality lend substance to a plot as insubstantial as California sunshine. The lovers first meet on the set of a Hollywood film in which she plays the lead. He has been commissioned to write a suitably romantic score "with a lot of fiddles." Prolonged transatlantic phone calls to their respective mates serve only to increase the passion of an affair begun as a kind of mutual convenience. Their first night together is amusing...