Word: digging
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...were just an inch away from a stuff, or from a dig or from a kill,” Bookman said. “But that inch made all the difference...
...point for understanding Jack Kerouac, his movement and eventually its persistence, is another Dean Moriarty quote from On The Road. “Oh man,” Dean says to Sal in his lyrical way, sitting in a bar and observing the world around him, “Dig the street of life.” Dean’s verbal wonderment captures not only the central metaphor of the work, but the hope for beatnik happiness amid a world of inescapable restrictions...
...There have to be minions of neo-hipsters, as well as earnest scholars of 20th century American literature at Harvard, who . . . would dig this movie,” says Sharples...
...viewers feel the same way? A November study by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press found that most Americans wanted journalists to "dig hard" for war news rather than "trust officials." But most also favored military censorship. And as nearly every TV newscast was decking itself in electronic bunting, Pew's respondents gave the press high marks for both objectivity and "stand[ing] up for America." The apparent lesson: the public wants the media to dig hard--for good news. Still, Bruckheimer says Profiles won't be a whitewash. "Black Hawk shows a lot of blemishes...
Rafah sits along the border with Egypt, so Palestinians dig tunnels to smuggle in cigarettes, hashish, baby formula--and arms. Israeli troops try to find the tunnels and shut them down. To divert the soldiers while the smugglers dig, Palestinians launch nightly assaults on Termite from Block O. Israel, in turn, tries to make Termite safer by bulldozing nearby homes, like Najjar...