Word: morass
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Figure skaters pop in and out of the American consciousness in four-year cycles, surfacing glamorously for the Olympics on gleaming skates and shimmering ice as instant heroes, only to disappear two weeks later into a morass of Ice Capades, Dino Martin and short'n'-sassy commercials...
...spring of 1980 Nunn was unsure whether the production could go ahead. "There was a script for Play I, but Play II was a morass. So John Caird and I went away to a hotel renowned for its good food. I figured we'd run out of time, but John argued vehemently that we could still do it. We were sitting at a table for two, our voices rising in the middle of this exclusive restaurant. We must have resembled nothing so much as two gays who'd gone away for the weekend to sort out their relationship." Nunn...
...Fletcher's wacky, lovely wife Gloria, who died driving her Jag too fast. In fairly short order, given his necessity to invoke Goethe, Swinburne, Auden, the Old Testament, Shakespeare, Conrad, Dostoyevsky, The Barber of Seville, Beethoven, Berenson, Vasari and other fonts of circumstantial wisdom, Usher stumbles into a morass of rot in Mass. As friends keep telling him, "Things don't happen to you: you happen to things...
...Peres plan is clearly highly ambitious, but many Israelis appear to be in a receptive mood for change. They now seem to realize that only a vigorous new demonstration of political will can pull Israel out of its economic morass and political malaise...
...Richard Nixon, Terrel Bell admitted that being at odds with the President "is really part of the job." Said he: "I want to exhort, stir things up, tread on toes." After serving under Gerald Ford, Bell backed the ultimately successful drive to make education a department separate from the morass of Health, Education and Welfare (now Health and Human Services). Now, as the prospective Education Secretary, the final Cabinet choice to be named by Ronald Reagan, Bell should find it easy to be at odds with his new boss, who favors dismantling the year-old Department of Education...