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.

Gaiman himself has summarized the plot of the series ( in the foreword to Endless Nights ) as " The Lord of Dreams learns that one must change or die, and makes his decision.

In his 1959 promotional film shown to potential sponsors, Rod Serling summarized an earlier version of this episode's plot under its original title, " Death, Destry, and Mr. Dingle.

The Ass () is probably a summarized version of a story by Lucian and contains largely the same basic plot elements as The Golden Ass ( or Metamorphoses ) of Apuleius, but with fewer digressions and a different ending.

Swanson invited Will Hays for lunch and summarized the plot, naming the author and the sticking points.

This relationship can be summarized by a plot of the orbital speed ( in km / s ) of the stars or gas in the galaxy on the ordinate against the distance from the center of the galaxy on the abscissa.

Note that most of these battles are summarized in the plot synopsis of their respective video game or book article.

To the extent that the book can be said to possess a plot, this can be summarized as the story of the hapless Nikolai Apollonovich, a ne ' er-do-well who is caught up in revolutionary politics and assigned the task of assassinating a certain government official — his own father.

The game's plot was met positively by reviewers, with GameSpy saying that " The plot can be summarized in one word: Epic.

The plot was ably summarized by Judge Learned Hand, in his opinion in the lawsuit:

They plot the open interest curves, rainfall curves, and they even divide Democratic congressmen by Republican congressmen.

Dickens not only reveals character through gesture, he makes hands a crucial element of the plot, a means of clarifying the structure of the novel by helping to define the hero's relations with all the major characters, and a device for ordering such diverse themes as guilt, pursuit, crime, greed, education, materialism, enslavement ( by both people and institutions ), friendship, romantic love, forgiveness, and redemption.

the plot takes place only in a gigantic megastructure / arcology simply called the City, which is still being expanded by its automatic systems.

Dariush Mehrjui's film Sara ( 1993 ) is based on A Doll's House, with the plot transferred to Iran with Sara, played by Niki Karimi, is the Nora of Ibsen's play.

The second funeral is distinguished by themes contrasting with those of the first, as well as by a change in the direction of the plot which leads to Beowulf's fight against Grendel's Mother.

* Many of the parts of the " conspiracy " are based on errors or plot holes identified by fans of the original movie, such as Leon's ability to bring a gun into the Tyrell building, or the reference to the sixth replicant.

Shortly afterwards, Mordechai discovers a plot by courtiers Bigthan and Teresh to assassinate Ahasuerus.

That night, Ahasuerus suffers from insomnia, and when the court records are read to him to help him sleep, he learns of the services rendered by Mordechai in the previous plot against his life.

A conspiracy theory explains an event as being the result of an alleged plot by a covert group or organization or, more broadly, the idea that important political, social or economic events are the products of secret plots that are largely unknown to the general public.

The political scientist Michael Barkun discussing the usage of this term in contemporary American culture holds that a conspiracy theory is a belief which explains an event as the result of a secret plot by exceptionally powerful and cunning conspirators to achieve a malevolent end.

The crisis led to an unsuccessful plot by Hugh Dalton to replace Attlee as Prime Minister with Ernest Bevin.

In fiction, continuity ( also called time-scheme ) is consistency of the characteristics of persons, plot, objects, and places seen by the reader or viewer over some period of time.

However, they heard of a plot to ambush them by the people of Plymstock, at a bridge over the River Tavy.

Candide is characterised by its sarcastic tone, as well as by its erratic, fantastical and fast-moving plot.