Word: plot
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...what if the U.S. is still the leading exporter in the world? The Japanese have masterminded a plot to sabotage us economically. They're out to destroy...
...prosecution insists that she was in on the plot to use a fortune in bribes and plunder to buy a piece of Manhattan worth more than $160 million. Her lawyers paint a different Imelda Marcos. The First Lady of the Philippines, they say, was a woman innocently cooling her thousands of pairs of heels as the machinations of Malacanang Palace buzzed around...
...screen than the megahit The Hunt for Red October. Most important to Hudlin and his older brother Warrington, who produced it, House Party appeals to the people it is about. "There's a theater two blocks from our house in Harlem," Reginald says, "and kids come out narrating the plot to their friends and get back in line. It's nice to provide an experience that you wanted when you were that...
Part Raymond Chandler (were he soft-boiled) and part Elmore Leonard (before he became famous), Robert Ferrigno has created in his first novel some completely original characters who fascinate without being fantastic. The plot revolves around Danny DiMedici's search for his ex-wife Lauren, a celebrity psychologist who has disappeared after a scientist is murdered in her elegant beach house. But The Horse Latitudes works because it is really the story of Danny's quest to get over his obsession with the amoral, alluring Lauren. Under the cover of deadpan comedy and sharp-edged eroticism, Ferrigno, a journalist from...
Marino also contended that plot summary in a review is useless, and discussing the themes and intentions of a play is gratuitous. But describing the content of a play makes a review coherent, and what is sometimes viewed as "plot summary" are often important illustrative details...