• The borrowing is not the problem: "Disturbia" borrowed an entire plot from "Rear Window, " but added value that young audiences responded to.

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  • She contacted Worcester police "after receiving an offer of a burial plot from the administration of the Islamic Funeral Services of Virginia, " the society said.

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  • It reads like a plot from a Charles Dickens novel.

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  • He visited the sites as a sort of cover, to throw people off and prevent plot points from leaking out.

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  • Hamilton has said the seed for her plot came from the 2005 Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Light in the Piazza, and the original novel by Elizabeth Spencer on which that was based.

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  • Equally if not more important has been a change in plot, from the traditional martial violence, simple noble samurai defeating evildoers themes, to more character-driven and sympathetic themes, including love stories or stories of daily life conflict within the social constraints of the Edo period.

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  • The plot, plucked from Hollywood's recycle bin by Todd Komarnicki and Jon Bokenkamp, is prodded into sluggish action when one of Rowena's childhood friends turns up dead -- not just no longer among the living, but murdered in a way that provides a grisly sequence in the morgue.

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  • The safest thing one could say about "Django Unchained" is that it finds Quentin Tarantino hurtling over the top yet again by juxtaposing the horrors of slavery with an absurdist, horse-opera buffa plot that quotes from all sorts of movies, including his own, with special emphasis on spaghetti westerns.

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  • You can see from the plot that the pattern is a sudden jump and then a slow drift downward.

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  • Four years ago, his support for school vouchers frightened voters, who suspected a right-wing plot to drain money from the public schools.

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  • If Mr Brown was not as distant from the plot as he wants people to think, then he is guilty of an appalling miscalculation.

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  • Burgundians believe a wine's character is derived principally from the plot of land the vine is planted on, which is graded by a classification system based on the vineyard, village and subdistrict.

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  • Garden gnomes have served as symbols of defiance on many levels as guardians of the natural environment against intending predators, or simply as cheerleaders for the colourful suburban plot, under threat from student japesters in France or, more seriously, from the fashionable proponents of ever more sophisticated garden design.

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  • Because I will not allow terrorists to plot against the American people from safe havens half a world away.

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