Word: plot
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Meanwhile, in the absence of final explanations, there are the conspiracy theories. The Internet, naturally, is full of them. Everywhere in the Arab world, where Dodi's relationship with Diana had become a source of national pride, there is speculation that a British plot killed the princess to prevent her from marrying an Egyptian. It's more likely that the Windsors may have been thinking that marriage to Dodi, a man routinely described as a foreign playboy, would have been a public-relations blunder for Diana and a badly needed plus for them. For once it would make their tweedy...
...seemed like the plot of a very bad movie, but it wasn't, and before it was over Chris Foote and Spring Wright were dead. Five intruders in ski masks, two with body armor, stormed a three-bedroom bungalow in the Maryvale area of Phoenix, Ariz., at 4 a.m. one day last week, using a sledgehammer to bludgeon their way into the house. In one bedroom they found Louisa Sharrah and proceeded to bind her arms with plastic cuffs and strike her with a metal flashlight. The men woke her young children and held them at gunpoint as they screamed...
...like a return to news as usual, once we had laid the Princess to rest and bid good-bye to Mother Teresa. But that was just appearances. Under the surface, a lot of quiet little revolutions kept the world distinctly topsy-turvy. True, there was no single earth-shattering plot twist, but we were left scratching our heads as a number of familiar characters started playing against type. Prince Charles turned out to be a good guy after all, and AOL's Steve Case made nice with CompuServe employees. The world's largest Communist country came out in favor...
When 1776 (songs by Sherman Edwards, book by Peter Stone) opened in 1969, few expected it to make it to the curtain call. A show about the writing of the Declaration of Independence? When the show beat out Hair for the Tony, some folks saw a revisionist plot. Yet 1776--a political debate with songs--could also be viewed as a metaphor for the fight over Vietnam. It was just as rancorous, as full of fury and compromise...
...Spiner of Star Trek: The Next Generation) to shut up? Will Thomas Jefferson (Paul Michael Valley) have sex in time to write his masterpiece? And would Benjamin Franklin (the benign curmudgeon Pat Hingle) please invent air conditioning--right away? It's a tribute to Ellis' pristine staging that the plot moves as smoothly and, yes, suspensefully as it did 28 or 221 years ago. Come as a skeptic, choose favorite Founding Fathers, feel like an avid student again, shed a tear, go home thrilled...