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The plot of Permutation City follows the lives of several people in a near future reality where the Earth is ravaged by the effects of climate change, the economy and culture are largely globalised ( the most commonly used denomination of currency is the ECU, the precursor to the euro in use at the time the book was written ), and civilisation has accumulated vast amounts of cloud computing power and memory which is distributed internationally and is traded in a public market called the QIPS Exchange ( QIPS from MIPS, where the Q is Quadrillions ).
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the plot takes place only in a gigantic megastructure / arcology simply called the City, which is still being expanded by its automatic systems.
The video for " Takes A Little Time " was a new direction for Grant ; with a blue light filter, acoustic guitar, the streets and characters of New York City, and a plot, Grant was re-cast as an adult light rocker.
Curry had decided for himself that Carson City would someday serve as the capital city and left a plot open in the center of town for a future capitol building.
* The Hubert Kairuki Memorial University ( HKMU ) is a private institution located on plot No. 322 Regent Estate in the Mikocheni area, some 7-km from the Dar es Salaam City centre, off Ali Hassan Mwinyi and Old Bagamoyo roads.
* 1836 – A pair of New York speculators plot and market a non-existent city known as " Biddle City.
* 1998 – Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $ 200, 000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.
Meanwhile, a secondary plot centered upon Clive J. Sutton, the Chief Executive of Sheffield City Council serves to illustrate for the viewer the United Kingdom government's then-current continuity of government arrangements.
* April – The New York Slave Insurrection, a plot to set fire to New York City, is discovered.
One of her early serials on the programme was City of Death, which Adams wrote, and which shares certain plot elements with the novel.
Luna City is the most important to the plot, and is " on the eastern edge of Mare Crisium ".
The plot being exposed, Ronglu's troops entered the Forbidden City at dawn on 21 September, forcing the Emperor into seclusion in a lake palace.
A captain in the Gotham City Police Department, she starts off as Batman's fiercest critic, but doubts herself after the Joker debacle ( part 3, see plot above ) and comes to terms with his involvement, realizing that he is ' too big ' for her to judge.
The plot of City Lights gradually grew from this initial concept.
His plot was however exposed in September 1780, at which time he fled to the British in New York City.
Its plot concerns Supergirl, Superman's cousin, leaving her isolated Kryptonian community of Argo City for Earth in an effort to retrieve the unique " Omegahedron ", which has fallen into the hands of the evil witch Selena ( Faye Dunaway ).
Adjacent to the Malibu Country Mart was a vacant, plot of land owned by billionaire Jerry Perenchio and sold to the City of Malibu in 2005 with strict deed restrictions prohibiting any further commercial use.
The Kings Park Psychiatric Center was built by Kings County ( before becoming part of New York City ) in 1885 after Dr. Oliver Dewing's successful campaign to develop a hospital for the mentally ill on an plot of land.
The book presents Clayton as the archetype of " Middle America ", the polar opposite of the cosmopolitan New York City where most of the plot takes place.
The plot of the 1984 movie, Footloose, is loosely based on events in Elmore City since dancing was banned for almost 100 years in this city.
Wigle is buried with his wife in Pikeville City Cemetery in the family plot, along with Tom Wigle.
In 1815 Abraham Pickering, whom the City of Pickerington is named after, donated a plot of land to be used for
* The Capcom videogame Dead Rising 2 contains a scenario where the dire outcome of the plot may lead to the fire bombing of the fictional city Fortune City, Nevada.
This plot device dates back to the medieval Arabian Nights tale of " The City of Brass ", in which a group of travellers on an archaeological expedition journey across the Sahara to find a brass vessel that Solomon once used to trap a jinn.
* CHRISTIAN, whose name was Graceless at some time before, the protagonist in the First Part, whose journey to the Celestial City is the plot of the story.
Young died on August 12, 2000, from ovarian cancer, at the Santa Monica, California home of her half-sister, Georgiana Montalbán, ( the wife of actor Ricardo Montalban ) and was interred in the family plot in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.
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The stereotyped plot line follows the " boy-gets-girl ", " boy-loses-girl ", " boy gets girl back again " sequence.
In the screenplay by Anthony Hinds, the main character's name was changed from Doctor Syn to Parson Blyss to avoid rights problems with Disney's upcoming film version, and Captain Cleggs screenplay follows the novel Doctor Syn and the screenplay of the 1937 film closely with the exception of a tightening of the plot.
This version of the film follows the same plot but pays more attention to popular jazz music and includes such jazz legends as Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, and Benny Carter playing themselves.
The plot follows his amoral and manipulative scheme to become leader of the governing party and Prime Minister.
His book The Diamond Age follows a simpler plot but features " neo-Victorian " characters and employs Victorian-era literary conceits.
The main plot follows Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter who is faced with " retiring " six escaped Nexus-6 brain model androids, the latest and most advanced model, while a secondary plot follows John Isidore, a man of sub-normal intelligence who aids the fugitive androids.
The story follows the basic Biblical plot.
The plot follows five students at fictional Shermer High School in the fictitious Chicago suburb of Shermer, Illinois as they report for Saturday detention on March 24, 1984.
The plot follows a mysterious stranger ( Eastwood ) who arrives in a brooding Western town where the people hire him to protect them against three soon-to-be-released felons.
* British — Ashton, Helen: Pierrot in Town ( 1913 ); Barrington, Pamela: White Pierrot ( 1932 ); Callaghan, Stella: " Pierrot and the Black Cat " ( 1921 ), Pierrot of the World ( 1923 ); Deakin, Dorothea: The Poet and the Pierrot ( 1905 ); Herring, Paul: The Pierrots on the Pier: A Holiday Entertainment ( 1914 ); Priestley, J. B .: The Good Companions ( 1929 ; plot follows fortunes of a Pierrot troupe, The Dinky Doos ; has had many adaptations, for stage, screen, TV, and radio ).
The film contains no scenes, characters, or dialogue from Red Harvest, whereas it follows the plot and main characters of The Glass Key fairly closely.
The plot of the movie basically follows Hugo's novel, but there are a large number of differences.
The plot of the epic costume drama follows the globe-trotting adventures of the title character, the illegitimate offspring of Maria Bonnyfeather, the bride of the cruel and devious middle-aged nobleman Marquis Don Luis, and Denis Moore.
The film loosely follows the novel ’ s plot, emphasizing the human relationships instead of Lem ’ s astrobiology theories — especially Kelvin ’ s Earth life, before his space travel to the planet.
The plot is based on Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's Lives and follows the relationship between Cleopatra and Mark Antony from the time of the Parthian War to Cleopatra's suicide during the Final War of the Roman Republic.
The plot follows a secret branch of the United States ' National Security Agency who have developed a time travelling device based upon alien technology found at Roswell.
If rage is accepted as a pre-verbal, pre-cognitive phenomenon ( and sufferers describe it colloquially as " losing the plot ") then it follows that cognitive strategies, eliciting commitments to behave differently or educational programs ( the most common forms of interventions in the UK presently ) are contra-indicated.
Its screen story fairly closely follows the plot of " Second Variety ".
In a play that follows a climatic plot construction, Dionysus the Protagonist, instigates the unfolding action by simultaneously emulating the play's author, costume designer, choreographer and artistic director.
The plot follows the novel by Franz Werfel, which is not a documentary but a historical novel blending fact and fiction.
The plot closely follows, and expands upon, the film of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
The arcade-style game Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis: The Action Game designed by Attention To Detail was released almost simultaneously with its adventure counterpart, and loosely follows its plot.
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