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It was a sort of poetic justice that at the time of his own demise a new plot to overthrow the Venezuelan government, reportedly involving the use of Dominican arms by former Venezuelan Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez, has been uncovered and quashed.
The plot displays many classic elements of farce, including puns, the slamming of doors, cases of mistaken identity ( frequently involving characters disguising themselves as one another ), and satirical comments on social class.
* Old Boys ( 2004 ) Christopher's old associates discover a plot involving terrorists and the fate of Christopher's mother
In 2006 the BBC documentary The Plot Against Harold Wilson alleged that there had been another plot involving Mountbatten to oust Wilson during his second term in office ( 1974 – 76 ).
The film's plot, involving Western villains from the future attempting to subjugate Japan, was also debated.
A plot, involving some military officers as well as opposition civilians, had already been discovered and crushed in late 1943.
Indonesian President Sukarno, backed by the powerful Communist Party of Indonesia ( PKI ), chose to regard Malaysia as a " neocolonialist " plot against his country, and backed a Communist insurgency in Sarawak, mainly involving elements of the local Chinese community.
At the time, the attacks plot had an additional component involving hijacking aircraft in Asia, as well as in the United States.
Luthor later escapes after a whole year in prison, through an elaborate plot involving clones: first using a clone of the President to grant him a pardon, then kidnapping the real Lois and replacing her with a clone just before her wedding to Clark.
Love and Rockets is a notable comic with a plot involving the Los Angeles punk scene.
" The Potter " is markedly different in tone from " The Monk ": whereas the earlier tale is " a thriller " the latter is more comic, its plot involving trickery and cunning rather than straightforward force.
Other elements are fast-pace repartee, farcical situations, escapist themes, and plot lines involving courtship and marriage.
They also generally feature a self-confident and often stubborn central female protagonist and a plot involving courtship and marriage or remarriage.
The plot of Corrupting Dr. Nice, a science fiction novel by John Kessel involving time travel, is modeled on films such as The Lady Eve and Bringing up Baby.
Braga and Moore wanted to feature the Borg in the plot, while producer Rick Berman wanted a story involving time travel.
The plot essentially retells the short story in a semi-autobiographical manner, with Poe himself undergoing a series of events involving a black cat which he used to inspire the story of the same name.
One particularly memorable piece of tabloidesque worldplay parody, involving a fictional plot to assassinate Paul McCartney by a disgruntled former roadie, read ' Mop Top Pot Shot Plot Flops ', or with a gonad-focussed violent encounter with Mr T and a 70's playground toy, ' BA Baracus in Macca's clackers knackers fracas '.
In the 1980s, the comic featured a plot involving the fictional island nation of Genosha, where mutants were segregated and enslaved by an apartheid state.
* The film Die Hard with a Vengeance has a plot involving thieves breaking into the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and stealing most of the gold bullion stored underground by driving dump trucks through a nearby Wall Street subway station.
Gilbert was surprised to hear of Sullivan's hesitation and had started work on a new opera involving a plot in which people fell in love against their wills after taking a magic lozenge.
These parallels end after the first few books, when the stories of the books begin to be structured along a loose plot arc involving the struggles of the city-state of Ar and the island of Cos to control the Vosk river area, as well as the struggles at a higher level between non-human Priest-Kings and Kurii ( another alien race ) to control the solar system.
However, he suspects that Taverner may be part of a larger plot involving the Sixes.
The building is considered to have been the intended target of a foiled terrorist attack, involving the hijacking of airplanes as part of the Bojinka plot, which was foiled in 1995.
Perry Mason was featured in more than 80 novels and short stories, most of which had a plot involving his client's murder trial.
Miller points out that the subplot in The Shrew is based on " the classical style of Latin comedy with an intricate plot involving deception, often kept in motion by a comic servant.

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The plot of the original modules Descent Into the Depths of the Earth and Shrine of the Kuo-Toa place a party of player characters ( PCs ) on the trail of the drow priestess Eclavdra through the Underdark, a vast subterranean network of interconnected caverns and tunnels, battling various creatures on their journey.

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He continues to plot to capture Luke, Leia and her newly born twins and warp them to the Dark Side.
" Character names are changed, plot points are altered ( Kate has two sisters for example, not one ), the play is set in Athens instead of Padua, Sly continues to comment on events throughout the play, and entire speeches are completely different ( lines from other plays are also found in A Shrew, especially from Marlowe's Tamburlaine ), all of which suggests that the author / reporter of A Shrew thought he ( or she ) was working on something different to Shakespeare's play, not simply transcribing it.
The still-popular story of " Cinderella " continues to influence popular culture internationally, lending plot elements, allusions, and tropes to a wide variety of media.
His son Ramsay continues to promote his no-dig gardening approach, and a demonstration plot may be seen at Capel Manor College in Enfield in conjunction with the Good Gardeners ' Association as of 2008.
Gold mining continues on at least one private plot located slightly to the southwest of the tourist attraction.
The same storyline continues for a week or more ( similar to a soap opera ), though Rogers is always sure to recap the plot for children.
The Horizon Corporation continues as a legitimate pharmaceutical corporation, without their CEO and the other employees involved in the never-revealed plot.
Tomb Raider: Underworld ( 2008 ) continues the plot introduced in Legend.
There is a movie titled Pedro Navaja, filmed in Mexico in 1984, starring Andres Garcia as Pedro Navaja, a young Maribel Guardia as his girlfriend, and Resortes as his best friend, which is based on this song ; it was made without Blades's input, which caused him to record " Sorpresas " ( Surprises ), a song that continues the story, turning the movie's plot around by revealing Navaja was still alive and had killed another panderer while he was being registered, provided that the other panderer believed he was truly dead.
When the teacher makes a statement that advances the story plot, the actors will act out that statement and then wait while the teacher continues with the circling questions.
" The uncredited reviewer set up plot regarding Gerald Wade being found dead and then said, " Thus far the story is excellent ; indeed it continues to promise well until the time comes when the mystery is to be solved.
Meanwhile, Casmir continues to plot against Aillas by funding the exploits of the Ska renegade Torqual, which however have little effect against Aillas's precautions.
Milton continues, " Of the style and uniformity, and that commonly called the plot, whether intricate or explicit ... they only will best judge who are not unacquainted with Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the three tragic poets unequaled yet by any, and the best rule to all who endeavor to write tragedy ".
The game continues the story of Abe, charting his efforts to save his fellow Mudokons from another plot by the Glukkons to exploit them.
Jeeter has lived on the same plot of land since he was born, and even though his standard of living continues to decline until he and his family begin to starve, Jeeter stubbornly refuses to move to the city to make a better life for himself by working in a cotton mill.
He continues to mistrust her and cannot be sure that she is not more aware of the plot than she admits.
The plot continues in the sequel, The Trial of Billy Jack.
Remnants of this plot are clearly visible on an aerial view of the area: a portion of Matthews Rd continues along a street directed at the intersections of Cross & Hammond.
Bayes then continues to describe his style of writing, adding that some scenes of his play might be entirely unnecessary to the plot, but are full of “ Wit ” and are very popular in the “ new style ” of writing.
" He continues by admitting, " When Lady Mason tells Sir Peregrine that she did forge the will, the plot of Orley Farm has unraveled itself ;-and this she does in the middle of the tale.
However, it continues to arms plot.
Checkmate by Alan Stevens continues directly after the events of Taren Capel, and whilst it ostensibly deals with Uvanov and Iago's struggle to contain the threat of the killer robots, it becomes clear as the play progresses that another plot is being hatched: the Church of Taren Capel seem more concerned with Capel's skull than his diaries, and eventually this is used to bring forth the Fendahl.
The story of The Dream Sequencer continues the plot found in The Final Experiment, starting in the year 2084, when the final world war wiped out all life on Earth.
As the plot continues we see how the first few episode all tie together ( so far ).
As Richard continues to attempt to prove the existence of the woman he loves, the others become convinced he is mentally ill and plot to " heal " him, so that he will ' fulfill prophecy ' and lead the D ' Haran army against the forces of Emperor Jagang.

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