Word: mucked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...envelope. "Would you please see that the president gets this?" he asked. Then he stepped back and announced: "Here's a gift for all of you from the Aurora area." Across the gleaming black slate lobby floor sloshed the contents of his bucket: a bouillabaisse of river muck and the carcasses of fish, a rat and a bird. The Fox, mysterious Scarlet Pimpernel of pollution, had struck again. His note explained all. A long doggerel rewrite of Coleridge's Kubla Khan, it ended with the lines: "We have begged you for mercy, and our hearts...
Other players have written "inside" books on baseball, yet none has created more of a furor than Bouton's "muck-stirrer," as one sportswriter calls it. The reason seems to be that players do not mind being knocked for their playing; it's talking about their playing around off the field that they object...
...above it: Harvard men are supplying tax money to fund the war just as graduates from Northeastern, or Purdue, or Berkeley. Harvard, too, is funneling men and research into the machine that slaughters hundreds of thousands of Asians. Harvard is not above anything- it is deep in the muck that is America...
Woodstock West. Inside, raked muck mixes with mischief. A high school student describes S.D.S. arm twisting. Freelance Writer Hunter Thompson portrays French Ski Champion Jean-Claude Killy as a Chevy promoter (and describes Playboy magazine, which rejected the piece, as "a conspiracy of anemic masturbators"). There is a thoughtful history of Biafra, a long biography of Gangster Mickey Cohen by the late Ben Hecht, even a serialized comic strip. "The first number was supposed to be 80 pages," says Zion, "but we went up to 136 because we just didn't want to kill the stuff...
...flap their Way up the Hill. Grating with the loud Rustle of eighty-six fiercely shaking, Bile-colored Posters were the shrill Brayings of one-hundred-forty-eight Asses, somewhat flat in Tone, without surrounding Hills to echo and re-echo their challenging Call! Hurling great Clumps of slimy Muck before them and behind them and to their Left and to their Right they gashed beyond all immediate Repair the once neatly trimmed Lawn and closed withunimaginable Petulance and noisy Spite on the front Steps in a Braying Horde! Victory seemed but a Scrape away...