Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...France last week men talked darkly about The Plot. Conservative Le Figaro described it as an attempt to paralyze "the action of the Chief of State in order to set up an 'activist' government by means of extreme right-wing groups." Leftist France Observateur talked of the "rapidly deteriorating" political situation and the "increasing impotence" of the regime, saw the day approaching when "the army can intervene as an arbiter to prevent 'civil war' " between right and left. The most dangerous plot is that which is prepared in the open...
Dempsey presents an interesting moral conflict in his play. The plot concerns two teen-age gangs who are weary of the constant wars caused by the personal grudges of their leaders, "Dutch" and Monk." Monk's gang plans a sneak attack on Dutch's outfit. It takes the seemingly cowardly act of a member of Monk's gang, Pete, who rats to Dutch about the attack, to reconcile the two gangs...
Simplicity is the greatest virtue of the plot: a young fashion model, Doris (Harriett Andersson) and her boss, Suzanne Brown (Eva Dahlbeck), journey from Stockholm to Gothenberg, the former to get away from her cloying fiance and the latter to try to renew a once torrid love affair with a married businessman, Mr. Lobelius (Ulf Palme). In another of his brilliant characterizations, Gunnar Bjornstand portrays the aging consul, who picks up Doris and plays Santa Baby with her for a day. He buys her a gown, a necklace, and a hot chocolate with whipped cream; he quietly retches...
...week produced other thrusts between the U.S. and Cuba. In Washington, Cuba withdrew from the null Bank. At the U.N., Foreign Minister Raúl Roa asked for immediate consideration of an alleged plot by the "Pentagon and U.S. monopolies" to launch a "large-scale invasion" of Cuba "within the next few days." Roa cited an alleged arms drop on Sept. 29 at 2 a.m. on the slopes of the guerrilla-speckled Escambray hills "by a four-motored aircraft of U.S. registry coming from the U.S. and piloted by U.S. airmen...
...plot of the picture seems at a glance no more than a reroast of an old chestnut: the tale of the reformer reformed. The hero (portrayed by Director Dassin himself "because I couldn't afford to pay an actor to play the part") is an intellectual Boy Scout from Middletown, U.S.A., who takes a trip to Greece in the wide-eyed expectation that in the cradle of Western philosophy he will "find the truth." He finds instead a warmhearted, disrespectful prostitute (Actress Mercouri) who tumbles only for the men she likes, charges only what they are willing or able...