Word: brackishness
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...Ganges, sometimes crashing through rapids, more often meandering into tributaries, Jewel does on occasion get bogged down in its own complexities. In the middle episodes, when the action closes in on Layton and four other mem-sahibs, the show could be mistaken for a provincial soap opera, and a brackish one at that. Sometimes too it parades a kind of sincerity that teeters on melodrama. Symbols are spelled out, symmetries underlined, characters displayed with embarrassing nakedness. Merrick never tires of proclaiming his lower-class origins, and Kumar commits such lines as "I hate ... most of all myself, for being black...
...three miles beyond what was once the eastern edge of the Great Salt Lake in Utah, cottonwood and birch trees stand in 9 ft. of brackish water, their trunks burned and their branches leafless. Dead wood and decaying, bloated carp litter the shore. Roads are flooded out, towers for power lines sit in muddy pools, and farther south, the famed Saltair resort with its Moorish-style gold domes is shut down...
...orange and yellow leaves, and throws just enough warmth into the air against the oncoming winter for Saturday football game, is the same sun that thousands of miles away pounds relentlessly upon that African nation day after day driving back the lakes and the greenery, soaking up the brackish pools and wells, beckoning the endless tide of sand that rolls on over the land...
...hostage mess had turned brackish, and worse was to come: at 7 a.m. on Friday, April 25, Carter told the nation that a U.S. military raid to rescue the hostages had been aborted, leaving the burned bodies of eight servicemen behind in the Iranian desert. In the next days, Americans gloomily sifted the rubble of their hopes and the nation's self-respect. Why had three of eight Sea Stallion helicopters failed? What was wrong with our equipment, or our nerve? Had there been a reasonable chance of success or was Carter's raid an ill-advised...
...sharp to take it down, a crew of 30 watching while two cops pull apart the crude span. And no sooner do they march away through the woods than a few of the protesters, out for an early morning walk, lay planks back across the trickle of brackish water and cross--their goal to collect as many "No Trespassing" signs as possible. Before long the police return, and tear up the new bridge, and force the three revolutionaries they capture to wade the marsh. "I had eight signs, and they took them all," one moans...