Word: riverman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That was the key to the game's unexpected lightness of mood. This was an acted-out comic book, adult cops and robbers. It certainly did not carry the brutal symbolic weight of fantasized murder. When Hockmeyer, the Maine riverman, shot me as I was about to grab the red flag and glory, I said "Ooog, good shot" and immediately felt slow and stupid, not quick and clever. But that was the extent of it; I didn't feel dead...
...back into a spine. The only problem is that Keith, for all his bluster, does not know what he is doing, in business or on the boat, and Alistair, when he eventually takes the helm, runs them onto the mud. Salvation comes in the person of a riverman, Vince (Graeme Eton), who puts the boat back on course. Vince knows how to do everything, it seems, and, after a day or two of amiability, displaces Keith as captain, humiliates Alistair and, with the help of a lady friend (Gillian Sevan), pulls down the Union Jack and unfurls the pirate...