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.

Although secondary to its hack and slash gameplay, Castle of the Winds has a plot loosely based on Norse mythology, told with setting changes, unique items, and occasional passages of text.

The plot of Stephen King's 2003 novel Wolves of the Calla is loosely based on The Magnificent Seven ( Or, rather Seven Samurai ).

One episode, " The Way ", which loosely interpreted elements of Hinduism as major plot points, generated controversy, requiring the producers to add a disclaimer at the head of the episode and a tag explaining the episode's intentions at its end.

The plot is loosely based on the life of the famous general Belisarius of the 6th century Byzantine Empire.

Although loosely based on the game, with similar characters and plot elements, there are some big differences.

Chinese writer-director Yuan Muzhi loosely based the plot of his 1937 film Street Angel on Seventh Heaven, though it shares a title with a different Frank Borzage film, the 1928 release Street Angel.

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.

Movie critic Dana Stevens describes the film plot as " a collection of brief vignettes which are so loosely connected that it feels at times like you're watching a non-narrative film.

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.

* Northern Lights: A novel by Philip Pullman that loosely parallels the plot of The Snow Queen in that a young girl travels north to find her kidnapped friend.

Peter Weir's 2003 film, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is loosely based on the novel The Far Side of the World from the Aubrey – Maturin series for its plot, but draws on a number of the novels for incidents within the film.

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.

Return to the Forbidden Planet is a Jukebox musical by playwright Bob Carlton based on Shakespeare's The Tempest and the 1950s science fiction film Forbidden Planet ( which itself drew its plot loosely from The Tempest ).

The book's plot follows the game's only loosely ; for example, in the game, the main character's lack of a name is a sign of his incomplete state, and a source of protection in being anonymous.

In 1978, NBC broadcast Ringo, a television special featuring Ringo Starr that was loosely based on the plot of The Prince and The Bagett.

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 song " International Rock Star " by the Canadian band Stars is loosely related to the plot of the book and features soundbites from the film.

* Much of the plot in the fantasy novel The Clocks of Iraz ( 1971 ) by L. Sprague de Camp turns on mass rioting by rival sporting factions, loosely modeled on the Nika riots.

The film was based very loosely on Salammbo, a historical novel by Gustave Flaubert, and had a plot and screenplay by Gabriele d ' Annunzio.

The film is loosely based on the plot of the novel, featuring an unnamed assassin ( Bruce Willis ) being hired to kill a high-ranking figure in the United States by the Russian mafia.

The special features many plot elements that are very loosely tied together, the most major being Oscar as the " Scrooge " on Sesame Street, as a minor takeoff on A Christmas Carol.

The game loosely mirrors a portion of the series ' plot, beginning with the impending destruction of Arthur Dent's house and subsequent demolition of the Earth by Vogons.

The plot is loosely based on an urban legend which claimed that the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, the youngest daughter of Nicholas II – the last Emperor of Russia – in fact survived the execution of her family, and thus takes various liberties with historical fact.

In a plot loosely based on the case of US police official and alleged torture expert Dan Mitrione, an American embassy official ( played by Yves Montand ) is kidnapped by the Tupamaros, a radical leftist urban guerilla group, which interrogates him in order to reveal the details of secret American support for repressive regimes in Latin America.