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Then Wilfred Owen went to war, and in the muck and death of the trenches wrote a different sort of poem...
...trucks and mobile concrete mixers. A power shovel operator watched in disbelief as six people-including a woman five months pregnant-leaped into a ditch and stretched out prone just beneath the shovel's jaws. Police moved in to disperse the demonstrators, but many came out of the muck fighting. Twenty-one were arrested that day; two were hurt...
...Poem or Muck? Swedish newspapers, in recent weeks, have printed more than 200 articles debating whether Bergman's film is art or pornography, whether it is "his strongest poem" or simply "muck." Letter-writing men are more shocked than women. Swedish teenagers, usually celebrated for their easygoing physical outlook, are offended. "Right now I don't want to see any more Bergman films," said one girl last week. "The sex scenes were almost animalistic, and I was shocked...
...company dredged the opening channel through the reefs of Pearl Harbor in 1902, eventually deepened it enough to change Pearl from a little coaling station to one of the world's great harbors. Walter Dillingham used the muck dragged up from the sea to fill in low, marshy areas around Honolulu, over the years created 5,000 acres of solid ground that now holds a full third of the city's population, is valued at upwards of $280 million. Most valuable of all is a section that before 1925 was nothing but a narrow sand crescent, covered with...
...water and debris thundered past. Then they noticed that the lights of Longarone had gone out. In just seven minutes, virtually everything and everybody in the chalet-bedecked villaggio had been swept away by water or entombed in mud. With pickaxes and shovels, soldiers dug fearfully into the muck, by week's end had unearthed 1,500 bodies. Of Longarone's peaceful populace of 3,500, the carabinieri feared that only a handful survived...