Word: mucking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Finally, while the movie succeeds brilliantly as a children's film, it makes the mistake of occasionally trying to say more. Most of the obstacles facing Atreyu have Phantom Tollbooth-like names such as the Swamp of Sadness--where the muck will suck you in if you can't hold a stiff upper lip and keep the sadness from overcoming...
...year-old Bacchic waterfest--scheduled for April 28--has been characterized in recent years by elaborately designed rafts and even more elaborately designed warfare systems. Last year, projectiles included pineapples, eggs, watermelons, dead fish and rats, and dredged-up muck from the Charles River floor...
...Morrow. All of this high-sticking will be settled before the opening ceremonies, because the U.S. and Canada cannot wait that long to have at each other. They play the night before. Around the perimeter of the village, distant sentries are stationed, some sinking unobtrusively into the muck. Machine-gun-toting guards, so familiar now at world occasions, are omnipresent here, along with airport-style X-ray equipment. Moran says, "The athletes are hoping they don't have 'blanket detectors.' " Souvenir hunters are eyeing the covers. Bedding in Sarajevo is more brilliant than housing. But the homes...
...Characters and Their Landscapes, is no celebration of the romantic idyl. Blythe well knows the curse of the quaint. He understands the perversity as well as the sanity in the compulsion of an Englishman to pull on his boots and muck about on the meadows, heaths and chalky plains of his native land. With country realism the author allows that to "be a native once meant to be a born thrall." He also notes that "Robert Burns' object in publishing his poems was not to celebrate his oneness with the village of Mossgiel but to make enough money...
...uninitiated, rugby is a mad game relegated to the rough and tumble who muck about for hours, and then celebrate by balancing mugs of beer on their heads, and of course on their longues. Even loyalists, bent on preserving tradition--the chants, Pig Roasts, and leaving teammates behind on road trips--do not shrink from the tale that rugby started with marauding Britons who played a mean keep-away with the heads of slaughtered Druids...