One day he assigned me to lay bare a `` plot '' by the Duponts to supply munitions to a wholly fictitious revolution he said was about to occur in Cuba.

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.

At one time, while still under the impression that he was dealing with a Cuban plot, the President talked about invoking a total embargo on trade with Cuba.

So the plot creaks, the sets are decaying, the costumes are pre-historic, the orchestra was sloppy and not very well connected with what the singers were doing.

And though it was logical that a man who could plot mass murder would not hesitate to speak an untruth, still it was difficult to understand why Spencer spoke only for Cromwell.

The success of his children's books was to become a source of considerable annoyance to Milne, whose self-avowed aim was to write whatever he pleased and who had, until then, found a ready audience for each change of direction: he had freed pre-war Punch from its ponderous facetiousness ; he had made a considerable reputation as a playwright ( like his idol J. M. Barrie ) on both sides of the Atlantic ; he had produced a witty piece of detective writing in The Red House Mystery ( although this was severely criticised by Raymond Chandler for the implausibility of its plot ).

Agathon was also the first playwright to write choral parts which were apparently independent from the main plot of his plays.

In 39, Agrippina and Livilla, with their maternal cousin, Drusilla's widower Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, were involved in a failed plot to murder Caligula, a plot known as the Plot of the Three Daggers, which was to make Lepidus the new emperor.

Though aware of the plot, Agrippina embarked on this boat and was nearly crushed by a collapsing lead ceiling only to be saved by the side of a sofa breaking the ceiling's fall.

Anna then protested that the family was in fear for their lives, her sons were loyal subjects ( Alexios and Isaac were discovered absent without leave ), and had learned of a plot by enemies of the Komnenoi to have them both blinded and had, therefore, fled the capital so they may continue to be of loyal service to the emperor.

* The illegitimate descendant of a Bulgarian prince named Aron formed a plot in 1107 to murder Alexios as he was encamped near Thessalonica.

A search for the author of the publications uncovered the whole plot, yet Aron was only banished due to his connection of the royal line of Bulgaria, whose blood also flowed in the veins of the empress Irene.

The opera Les Danaïdes ( The Danaids ) is a five-act tragédie lyrique ; the plot was based on an ancient Greek legend that had been the basis for the first play in a trilogy by Aeschylus, entitled The Suppliants.

The musical style of the show's score was primarily Doo-Wop as the plot revolved around Doo-Wop group singers of the 1960s.

Abd al-Rahman was apparently sagacious enough to expect such a plot.

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.

Promotional drawings were created and published in Variety during the casting process before the budget was deemed too little for the plot.

Gromley said he was told the details of the bomb plot by Louis Merletti, a former director of the Secret Service.

The report said the subsequent US investigation into the plot " revealed that it was masterminded by a Saudi terrorist living in Afghanistan named Osama bin Laden ".

The main plot from Rear Window was used for Body Double, while it also used elements of Vertigo.

Hawkins ' song " I Put a Spell on You " was central to the plot of Stranger than Paradise, while Mystery Train is inspired by and named after a song popularized by Elvis Presley, who is also the subject of a vignette in Coffee and Cigarettes.

The Tempest is considered by most Shakespearean scholars to have been written in 1610 – 11 and inspired by published and unpublished contemporary descriptions of the 1609 Sea Venture shipwreck on the island of Bermuda, and most especially William Strachey's eyewitness report, A True Reportory of the Wracke and Redemption of Sir Thomas Gates, Knight because of certain verbal, plot and thematic similarities.

Although it was marketed as a true story to attract a wider audience and as a subtle commentary on the era's political climate, its plot is entirely fictional ; however the character of Leatherface and minor plot details were inspired by the crimes of real-life murderer Ed Gein.

He credited the graphic coverage of violence by San Antonio news outlets as one inspiration for the film and based elements of the plot on serial killer Ed Gein in 1950s Wisconsin ; Gein inspired other horror films such as Psycho ( 1960 ) and The Silence of the Lambs ( 1991 ).

The plot of The Magnificent Seven directly inspired the 1980 sci-fi film, Battle Beyond the Stars, which included actor Robert Vaughn as one of the seven mercenaries hired to save a farming planet from alien marauders.

The South Korean western movie The Good, the Bad, the Weird ( 2008 ) is inspired by the film, with much of its plot and character elements borrowed from Leone's film.

The plot of the first serial, “ The Wrong End of Time ”, was inspired by a – possibly apocryphal – story of a German Expeditionary Force supposed to have landed in Britain in 1940, during World War II.

Jean Racine's tragedies — inspired by Greek myths, Euripides, Sophocles and Seneca — condensed their plot into a tight set of passionate and duty-bound conflicts between a small group of noble characters, and concentrated on these characters ' double-binds and the geometry of their unfulfilled desires and hatreds.

* The Coen brothers ' film The Big Lebowski is inspired by the character Philip Marlowe and the style and plot elements of Chandler's novels such as The Big Sleep.

The plot of the play was inspired by the real-life story of David Hampton, a con man who managed to convince a number of people in the 1980s that he was the son of actor Sidney Poitier.

* The plot element of the killing of missionary Jameson at China Light Mission may have been inspired by the 1934 killing of American Christian missionaries John and Betty Stam and by the killing of the " China Martyrs of 1900 ".

Barbette is believed to have been the inspiration for the 1933 German film Viktor und Viktoria, which features a plot about a woman pretending to be a female impersonator whose gimmick of removing her wig at the end of her act is inspired by Barbette's signature gesture.

The plot may have been inspired by the kidnap and trial of the German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer ( lieutenant colonel ) and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust.

Urashima Tarō is often referenced in Hideo Kojima's adventure video game Policenauts, and much of the game's plot elements were also inspired by the tale.

The plot is based on the German folk legend of the Freischütz and many of its tunes were inspired by German folk music.

Disney's 1967 animated film version, inspired by the Mowgli stories, was extremely popular, though it took great liberties with the plot, characters and the pronunciation of the characters ' names.

The plot inspired Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel Phantom of the Opera and the innumerable works derived from it.

The plot was loosely based on a short story from Qing Dynasty writer Pu Songling's Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio ( 聊齋誌異 ), and also inspired by the 1960 Shaw Brothers Studio film The Enchanting Shadow.

The plot may have been inspired by the real-life case of Colonel Valentine Baker, who was convicted of an indecent assault on a young woman in a railway carriage in 1875.

In August 2007, The New York Times noted that the publication of Rowling's Deathly Hallows had inspired " a surge of peculiarly Chinese imitations ," and included plot synopses and excerpts from a number of derivative works, among them Harry Potter and the Chinese Overseas Students at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and Harry Potter and the Big Funnel.

The plot of The ABC Murders is mentioned by Detective Inspector John Appleby in Michael Innes ′ novel Appleby ′ s End ( 1945 ), and in the first story in volume 39 of the manga Detective Conan ( chapters 393-397 ), which was inspired by the novel.

The film was inspired by Jones's children's book The Saga of Erik the Viking ( 1983 ), but the plot is completely different.

The film's plot was inspired by 1947's Down to Earth.

In the book The Folk Songs of North America, folk music historian Alan Lomax suggests that the song originated in the 17th century, and ( based on plot similarities ) that John Gay's 1728 The Beggar's Opera was inspired by Gay hearing an Irish ballad-monger singing " Whiskey in the Jar ".