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The plot revolves around Edward II of England's infatuation with Piers Gaveston, which proves to be the downfall of both of them, thanks to the machinations of Mortimer.
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The plot revolves around a sinister construction corporation's plans to depopulate, destroy and redevelop the Bronx, and a band of rebels who are out to expose the corporation's murderous ways and save their homes.
The plot revolves around species-related humor, satire, and interpersonal conflict.
" Johnston took the-vril suffix from Bulwer-Lytton's then-popular " lost race " novel The Coming Race ( 1870 ), whose plot revolves around a superior race of people, the Vril-ya, who derive their powers from an electromagnetic substance named " Vril.
It incorporates elements of dark humor and existentialist drama, with a plot that revolves around the exploits of a young man named Harold ( played by Bud Cort ) intrigued with death.
The 2005 film The Island revolves around a similar plot, with the exception that the clones are unaware of the reason for their existence.
Often, much of the plot revolves around his heritage or mysterious nature.
Work is not glorified either, since the plot revolves around a group of villagers using their vacation time to go on a trip up the Volga to perform in Moscow.
* Machiavelli wrote in 1518 a play Mandragola ( The Mandrake ) in which the plot revolves around the use of a mandrake potion as a ploy to bed a woman.
In the mystery novel The Murders of Richard III by Elizabeth Peters ( 1974 ) the central plot revolves around the debate as to whether Richard III was guilty of these and other crimes.
Many critics and audiences have likened the film to a modern Western, while many others dispute this, or liken it to a crime novel that revolves around mistaken identity plot devices.
Labor unions, which had been treated negatively in " The Roads Must Roll ", are here subjected to even more severe and categorical criticism, where a significant portion of the plot revolves around Max's attempts to enter the closed guild system of the spacelines ' officers and crew.
The plot revolves around the behind-the-scenes antics of a group of Munchkins on the set of The Wizard of Oz.
The plot of Rebel Assault II revolves around destroying the Empire's ability to manufacture the cloaking TIE phantom starfighter, and a campaign in X-Wing Alliance centers on destroying experimental remote-control TIE fighters.
The plot of " Evidence " revolves around the question of telling a human being apart from a robot constructed to appear human – Calvin reasons that if such an individual obeys the Three Laws he may be a robot or simply " a very good man ".
The plot revolves around a murder where the forensic investigation discovers that the victim was killed by a hug from a humaniform robot.
In TV interviews, Hitchcock defined a MacGuffin as the object around which the plot revolves, but, as to what that object specifically is, he declared, " the audience don't care ".
Moreover, The Patriot does not depict the American character Benjamin Martin as innocent of atrocities ; a key plot point revolves around the character Benjamin Martin's guilt over acts he engaged in, such as torturing, killing, and mutilating prisoners during the French and Indian War.
Set in a dystopian present, the plot revolves around the contestants of a gruelling walking contest, held annually by a somewhat despotic and totalitarian version of the United States of America.
The film's plot revolves around two characters, Weyak and Pua.
In Robert Louis Stevenson & Lloyd Osbourne's novel The Wrong Box, much of the farcical plot revolves around the mis-delivery of two boxes at Waterloo station, and the attempts by the various protagonists to retrieve them.
The plot of the film revolves around the one pharmaceutical corporation that has found a cure but chooses to withhold it from the public in favor of a more lucrative treatment program.
The plot is set in the fictional Indiana Jones universe and revolves around the eponymous protagonist's global search for the legendary sunken city of Atlantis.
The plot revolves around Sylvia, a ditzy psychic, and Nick, her equally odd psychic friend and their trip into the Ecuadorian Andes to find the " source of psychic energy ".
However, the Galactic Empires from Foundation and the CoDominium universe are relatively benign organizations ; indeed, much of the plot of the Foundation series revolves around the issue of who can best and quickest revive the fallen galactic empire, it being taken for granted that this is a positive and worthy aim.
Set in Baltimore, Maryland, the plot revolves around Macon Leary, a writer of travel guides whose son has been killed in a shooting at a fast-food restaurant.
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The musical style of the show's score was primarily Doo-Wop as the plot revolved around Doo-Wop group singers of the 1960s.
The original city plot was around current day Ripley and 5th Streets, where Antoine LeClaire had built his house.
The alleged plot revolved around right-wing former military figures who were supposedly building private armies to counter the perceived threat from trade unions and the Soviet Union.
The plot centers around a television journalist who, after being fired for his inadvertent role in inciting a post-robbery riot in Los Angeles, seeks to independently investigate the teleportation system for the flaws in its design allowing for such spontaneous riots to occur.
The plot centers around a war between Earth and its colonies in space ; however, in contrast to the Universal Century continuity, the Gundam pilots of Gundam Wing are more closely allied to each other than they are to any particular side in the conflict unfolding around them.
Revolving around an Englishman living in 1930s London named Robert Denvers who has recollections of a previous life as a Bronze Age Cypriot – an allusion to Gardner himself – the primary plot of A Goddess Arrives is set in ancient Cyprus and featured a queen, Dayonis, who practices sorcery in an attempt to help her people defend themselves from invading Egyptians.
However, the Volunteers ' leader, Eoin MacNeill, found out about the plot at the last minute, and issued countermanding orders to Volunteer units around the country.
Quake III Arena ( 1999 ), the next title in the series, has minimal plot, but centers around the " Arena Eternal ", a gladiatorial setting created by an alien race known as the Vadrigar and populated by combatants plucked from various points in time and space.
Its plot centers around Stephen Gordon, a woman who identifies herself as an invert after reading Krafft-Ebbing's Psychopathia Sexualis, and lives within the homosexual subculture of Paris.
The club was featured in a children's television show called Scully ; the plot revolved around a young boy, Francis Scully, who tried to gain a trial match with Liverpool.
The plot centers around the premise of a " Stargate ", an ancient ring-shaped device that creates a wormhole enabling travel to a similar device elsewhere in the universe.
Because their film characters are separated throughout the film ( due to the plot revolving around time travel ), Bullock and Reeves were only on set together for two weeks during filming.
Their albums generally fall into two categories: deconstructions of Western popular music, or complex conceptual pieces, composed around a theme, theory or plot.
The suggestive elements were removed, several of the male characters were given more bishōnen —" beautiful boy "— appearances, and the plot element around the tarot cards were added.
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In July Elizabeth granted the Earl property which been seized from Edward Jones, who had been executed for his role in the Babington plot.
Fawkes's fellow students included John Wright and his brother Christopher ( both later involved with Fawkes in the Gunpowder plot ) and Oswald Tesimond, Edward Oldcorne and Robert Middleton, who became priests ( the latter executed in 1601 ).
The first to speak was the Speaker of the House of Commons ( later Master of the Rolls ), Sir Edward Philips, who described the intent behind the plot in lurid detail.
Sten Körner also noted that the death of Harthacnut could be part of a plot, but also did not further explore the notion though the implication would be that Edward the Confessor was behind this plot.
Opposition to Edward and the Despensers rule continued ; in 1324 there was a foiled assassination attempt on their lives, and in early 1325 John of Nottingham was placed on trial for involvement in a plot to kill them with magic.
Edward was still unwilling to travel to France to give homage ; the situation in England was febrile ; there had been an assassination plot against Edward and Hugh Despenser in 1324, there had been allegations that the famous magician John of Nottingham had been hired to kill the pair using necromancy in 1325, and criminal gangs were occupying much of the country.
Ken Follett's 2007 novel, World Without End uses the alleged murder of Edward II ( and the infamous letter ) as a plot device.
His father, the previous earl and a loyal Lancastrian, was executed for a failed plot to assassinate Edward IV.
As sales figures plummeted towards the end of the series, the writers attempted to revive interest by introducing fantastical creatures, aliens, and even Alec Holland's brother, Edward ( a plot point ignored by later writers ), into the picture.
When Perkin Warbeck impersonated her cousin Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York, in 1499, her brother Edward was attainted and executed for involvement in the plot.
Other Absurdists use this kind of plot, as in Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance: Harry and Edna take refuge at the home of their friends Agnes and Tobias because they suddenly become frightened.
The story as reported by Edward Shortland has a degree of similarity to the New Testament episode where Jesus rose after three days and three nights in the tomb ; Christian influence may have played a role in the plot of this tale.
Having averted a conservative reaction in religion and a plot to destroy him alongside Somerset, Dudley emerged in early 1550 as de facto regent for the 12-year-old Edward VI.
At this time she became the victim of an elaborate plot by Hugh Despenser the younger with the help of King Edward II.
Edward Byrom helped to foil a Royalist plot to seize Manchester in 1642.
At the infamous trial Sir Edward Coke and Sir Francis Bacon were set to unravel the plot.
His spies were then able to intercept mail, and he exposed Edward Sexby's 1657 plot to assassinate Cromwell and captured would-be assassin Miles Sindercombe and his group.
A number of people have remarked on its resemblance to H. G. Wells ' The Shape of Things to Come ; the " sleeper wakes into pseudo-utopia " plot was popularized by Edward Bellamy's best-selling Looking Backward.
During this period, he helped plot the downfall of the Lord Protector, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset.
Upon his plot being exposed by Luthor, Edward Bolt is arrested by Sheriff Bronson as Edward fires Luthor ( who had already quit half an hour before ).
Some fifty years later, the premise of Five Children and It inspired the plot of Half Magic ( 1954 ) by the American author of children's books Edward Eager.
* Run Silent, Run Deep 1958 — fictional USS Nerka ( which loosely shares plot elements and the villain destroyer captain, Bungo Pete, with Edward L. Beach's novel, but not much of the plot )
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