Word: backwash
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...manager. Rounding out the staff at each end are Lynn (Jill Eikenberry), the secretary, David (Bruce Kirby), the cub reporter, and Frank (Jon Korkes), the conscientious editor who is undercut repeatedly by his boss. What they all have in common, besides their affiliation with what Max calls the "Monongahela Backwash," is the low-keyed energy with which they are played. Michael, Laura, Harry et al seem like real people, even though they don't always seem like real journalists...
...humid backwash that numbs all feeling...
Graham's stunning victory over the 22-year incumbent Democrat came in a backwash of liberal and left-of-liberal votes from various precincts in the district which stretches from Harvard's backdoor along Broadway and Mass Ave.--including Leverett Towers--to the banks of the Charles near M.I.T...
Until we fathom that the solution to Watergate is not a change in administrations but a severe curtailment of governmental scope, and that moral relativism must be replaced by a single and objective moral standard for all, we will continue to be submerged in the backwash of future Watergates and in the improper excesses of those who would rule...
...crowds in validation of a lingering family magic, warmed them up with some of the old self-deprecating one-liners ("It just shows what it is to have a famous brother-in-law"), and then introduced the candidate with a gusto that sometimes left McGovern in an uncomfortable backwash of anticlimax. In Pittsburgh, McGovern was practically bowled over by a woman who rushed up to Ted and cried, "Oh, Senator, we can hardly wait until 1976!" Then the woman apologized to McGovern and added: "But that's how we feel here in Pittsburgh...