Word: plot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Billy was in Tripoli, the Justice Department was investigating a vague plot by Libya to get its eight impounded C-130s released by bribing U.S. officials with up to $1 million per plane. One source the department regarded as unreliable said Billy was involved in the scheme. Fugitive Financier Robert Vesco
...Carter watched the opening ceremony," said one elderly housewife. "If he did, he must have been sorry not to be able to see it all. The poor Americans." Angered that Britain had only one marcher in the opening parade, a Soviet television announcer told viewers: "There is the clumsy plot... against the traditions of the Olympic movement...
...fainted dead away. After all, His Holiness was at that moment supposed to be traveling in Africa 3,000 miles away. A papal miracle? No, a cinematic satire, Il Papocchio (rough translation: Papal Mess). The Italian film features Actor Manfred Freiberger, a look-alike for the Polish Pope. The plot turns on the Pontiffs attempt to establish a Vatican TV station as a means of attracting young people to the church. Rossellini is hired as a public relations aide for the venture, in exchange for eternal salvation. But the plan runs afoul of the Sacred College of Cardinals, the (fictitious...
...Kill are not candidates for compassion or figures of raunchy fun. They are animated mannequins-the wandering housewife (Dickinson), the loving son (Keith Gordon), the harried hooker (Allen), the patient psychiatrist (Michael Caine)-whose only function is to attack or be attacked, to play villain or victim. The plot has so many coincidences and contradictions that the moviegoer is left with only one option: to savor Dressed to Kill as an exercise in directorial style...
...final book of the tetralogy does, and in the process, insinuates strands of history and myth, philosophy and ribaldry. With a cast of characters that includes Viking Warrior Erik Bloodaxe, Cowboy Star Tom Mix and a deck of World War I Flying Aces, its plot twisted to provide a climactic battle between Clemens and King John, and a final confrontation between Burton and the strange Ethicals who control the Riverworld, The Magic Labyrinth charts a territory somewhere between Gulliver's Travels and The Lord of the Rings. It also raises a few moral questions. Is Göring...