Word: mucked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Take my advice: there's money in muck." Omar (Gordon Warnecke), a young Pakistani on the dole in London, takes these words to heart as he aspires to the comfortable status of his assimilated (and sleazy) uncle and pursues his own commercial dream of "a laundrette the size of the Ritz." With the assistance of his gay lover, Johnny (Daniel Day Lewis), an ersatz National Front hoodlum, Omar dreams up "Powders," a designer cleaning service replete with neon signs and high-style furnishings--even a fish tank...
...that has slipped away. New England has gone into mourning once again, as another of its professional sports teams has been lost in the muck of disappointment and moral collapse...
...Lown keeps expanding his responsibilities maybe he'll end up intimately involved with his government, like Dr. Chazov. But heaven forbid he ever be forced to admit he's wallowing in the muck of politics...
...matters" has managed to become almost totally irrelevant. The boys have completely ceased to do what they once did so well, possible because of Mick Jones's absence, and possibly because of Joe Strummer's stepped-up presence. With this record, the band has sunk even deeper into the muck out of which Combat Rock crawled--and The Clash will be inextricably stuck in the muck unless they manage to cut the crap...
...hurtling mass of earth and debris came to rest in a ravine at the bottom of the hill, entombing its victims in a mound of muck 40 ft. to 60 ft. thick. It is still unclear how many residents of Mameyes caught in the slide's path survived the fall, but those who did escaped soon after the disaster struck. Unlike the havoc wrought by last month's earthquake in Mexico, the mud slide left no lifesaving pockets of air to sustain the trapped...