Word: plotter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Charlie come across as tender and courageous victims; even some of the stooges, notably a half Cherokee named John Rainbird, show complexity and charm. Though he is not an elegant writer - he is addicted to such objurgations as "You blind, obsessive fools" - Maine-based Stephen King is a superb plotter with a fine eye for terrain and, indeed, pyrotechnical detail...
...headlong revolutionary plunge could hardly last. In February 1970 Marshall and others helped organize a downtown Seattle demonstration to protest the verdicts of the Chicago Seven conspiracy trial. By December, after a monthlong trial in which he and six others (the eighth alleged plotter went underground) were unsuccessfully prosecuted for conspiracy to damage the Seattle Federal Building, he was in jail for contempt of court. All seven would have been freed had they not provoked the elderly judge with catcalls during the proceedings. At one point, two of them presented him with a Nazi flag...