Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thoroughly articulated a world as, say, Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County. In all the books, but especially in Journey to Ixtlan, Castaneda makes the reader experience the pressure of mysterious winds and the shiver of leaves at twilight, the hunter's peculiar alertness to sound and smell, the rock-bottom scrubbiness of Indian life, the raw fragrance of tequila and the vile, fibrous taste of peyote, the dust in the car and the loft of a crow's flight. It is a superbly concrete setting, dense with animistic meaning. This is just as well, in view of the utter weirdness...
...lobster Newburgh dinner was the brightest part of the day for the Crimson ski team yesterday as both the Alpine and Nordic squads finished in the bottom half of the standings at the Middlebury (Vt.) Carnival...
...lost a lot of time by edging too much and overturning on the steep parts of the course," Steele said last night. He added that on the second run he almost lost control on the bottom part of the course...
...production's strong points. Abd'el Farrah's scenery is effective and elegant (at least, what I could see of it. The management had stuck me back in the last seat of the orchestra, with the balcony looming over me, so I really only saw half the play--the bottom half). In one of the most dramatic sequences, the two figures which were formerly protraits step out of their frames as live figures (this caused the girl next to me to gasp aloud, and then crumple with embarrassment). Such a gimmick might seem overly stagey or self-consciously dramatic...
...Senate voted 77 to 0 to set up a special committee, chaired by Ervin, to investigate all aspects of the Watergate bugging case, including questions of White House ties to the conspirators. Says Ervin: "There will be no witch hunt [but] I am going to get to the bottom of this thing...