Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...survey of Clinton's accusers proves nothing else, it's that birdbrains of a feather flock together. On the alleged plot's outer edges stand the mom-and-pop entrepreneurs devoted to peddling anti-Clinton miscellany via at least a dozen Websites. Michael Rivero's Vincent Foster page invites the visitor to view a video of an actual suicide by gunshot, while the unofficial Bill Clinton home page features a doctored photograph of the President with his pants around his ankles. Then there's cybergossip Matt Drudge's controversial Drudge Report, which put the Lewinsky story on the Net days...
Harrison (daughter of novelist Jim Harrison) is something of an anomaly herself: a mystery writer who's not only literate and handy with a plot but possessed of a voice and a vision as well. Her off-the-cuff eloquence and easy sarcasm remind one of a small-town courthouse wit, loitering on the steps with a cigarette, flipping digs at starchy passersby. Her supporting characters and assorted suspects, from a snippety lady historian to a blowsy, big-boned social worker, aren't merely fictional head shots. They have body. Stuck way out on the windy plains together, their passions...
...With Friends Like These There are things you can say in public ? and then there?s what Dick Morris said on the radio about supposed friend Hillary Clinton. Although some suspect a clever plot, Morris is said to be extremely distraught over the gaffe...
...School sold the plot of land on which Gund Hall presently stands to Harvard in 1966 for $750,000, according to Wiberg...
...saying there was a conspiracy here, a vile plot to deflect our collective passions from old-fashioned communal endeavors like caucus meetings and political canvassing to field goals and 40-yd. passes. There is no evidence that, for example, the CEO of General Motors sat down with the officials of the NFL one day back in the '50s or '60s and said, "Whaddya say we try the old bread-and-circuses scam?" On the contrary, I believe Americans went into sports mania willingly and with their eyes wide open. There is a human need, perhaps especially in a culture that...