Word: moiling
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...with so many symbols of the tur-moil in Indonesia, the fate of the country's soccer league can be traced back to ex-President Suharto, who in 1966 encouraged the military to take command of Indonesia's sporting life. He believed the armed forces would be the best agent to encourage?and coerce?local and foreign businesses to sponsor domestic football. It didn't work: the National League has degenerated into a private club for retired generals and their cronies...
...scene becomes a moil of solo showing off, a gleeful choreographic cadenza that no choreographer could plot. All movement is as spontaneous as the music, which soon rides into Going to the Mardis Gras and, at last, into the tune that seems to be everybody's great expectation: When the Saints Go Marching In. A young woman in frayed jeans curves backward, in an affront to gravity, all the while clapping her hands, rending the air with throaty singing- "Oh, when the saints. . ." At times such carryings-on have been known to get out of hand...
...salvager plucks his life savings of $9,300 from a cache and becomes Tom McGraw, a retired fisherman. Following a ritual clue Gretel had given him a few days before dying, he heads for northern California, in search of a fictitious missing daughter who has supposedly disappeared in the moil of a fanatical religious commune. Its remaining inhabitants, when he finds them, are no Moonies. Armed to the bicuspids and as pious as piranhas, the communards turn out to be dedicated members of an international conspiracy to overthrow the capitalist-imperialist world...
...sees the weather differently according to his circumstance, healthy fear works at the hub of his obsession with it. Facing the awesome grandeur and cruel humors of the weather, ancient man was forced to attribute the mysterious cosmic moil to deities. Wishing desperately to better his odds against the weather (or lessen its against him), he invented innumerable prayers, supplications, sacrifices, all intended to coax the gods to bestow better weather. Wanting exactly like modern man to know about tomorrow's wind, he developed the practice of looking for omens of coming weather in the conduct of animals...
...creates the impression that colonialists were innocent victims, rather than coauthors, of India's ceaseless agonies. The land and its people deserve more than a series of murals painted in primary colors. Yet even these oversized apologetics are diminished by the vastness of the nation and the tur moil that attended its beginnings. Freedom at Midnight has many flaws, but India is not one of them. Ultimately, the book, like the country itself, is overtaken by events...