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...been living, gone." Homes became islands in the sunny coastal necklace of glamorous enclaves like Malibu, which was cut off by the closure of the Pacific Coast Highway and canyon passes packed with mud. Santa Barbara's mission-style historical district was a waist-deep gumbo of guck. Dramatic rescues were everywhere on television as heroes dangled from helicopters, plucking the stranded from the water's path. Authorities revised the damage estimates daily: $200 million, $300 million . . . As the floods receded and more storms lay off the coast, the number of counties declared a disaster by the Federal Government rose...
...scene might have been an outtake from Creature from the Black Lagoon: a lone figure stumbles from the water covered in yellow guck and with a swollen eye. Except that there were hundreds of spectators on the beach, and they cheered when Diana Nyad came ashore last week in Jupiter, Fla., the first person ever to swim from the Bahamas to the U.S. "I feel like the F train in New York just ran over me, but emotionally I'm exhilarated," exulted Nyad between sips of champagne and whiffs of oxygen. The marathoner attempted the feat three weeks...
...Jiminy Cricket perched on the eyeball of Monstro the Whale in Pinocchio, the sight of Dopey with diamonds screwed into his face like monocles, whirling his multiplied eyes within their facets. Such things are the real stuff, and any smart five-year-old can distinguish them from the cyclamate guck of late Disney...
...girls "because it has a very profound calming effect." They also did "bellows breathing," a series of 30 very fast gulps of breath, and followed this with two violent breaths, one slow, deep breath, and then a long, hold breath with closed eyes. "This gets out the guck at the bottom of your lungs," Moynahan said...
Adams may produce a secret weapon in the form of fullback Guck Mahoney, who has announced that be may play tomorrow in spite of hour exams this week and lack of practice. Mahoney, former netfolk, Virginia, Naval Base star, is reputed to have thrown a 70-yard pass in his first intra-service game and can run 100-yards in ten seconds...