Word: mucking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with disaster, the flying public is forced to confront dangers it never even knew existed--remember microbursts and wind shear?--and the airlines scramble to alter policies, upgrade technology or retrain their pilots. In the case of the May 11 crash of ValuJet Flight 592, which plunged into the muck of the Everglades and killed all 110 people on board, the safety concerns are so varied--and the questions emerging about the role of the Federal Aviation Administration in regulating low-cost airlines so troubling--that it may be a while before passengers again feel that the skies are comfortable...
Blue Man Group's stage piece "Tubes" is like a Baptist revival on Mars. Three mute, blue figures muck around at the messy crossroads of modern life, splashing around in paint to demonstrate chaos theory, attacking Twinkie's with power drills to re-examine such banalities as shrink-wrap, vacuuming the pathetic Christina out of Wyeth's "Christina's World." Frequent musical segments with deep primal bass lines and irregular-heartbeat drums overwhelm the audience in a purely sensory world, freeing them from the burden of too much thinking. Genteel Boston audiences have become devotees of the Blue Man Experience...
...well. Although Terrio performs the role of the besieged Teddy with polish, his performance seems to lack the enthusiasm of the rest of the cast. Only occasionally, such as a pantomime scene with Lidia towards the end of the play, does Terrio seem to let his guard down and muck around in the messy freedom of the play; such glimpses of energy leave one wishing he had shown the same throughout the play...
...argued rather persuasively that such descriptions are now unconscionable, that fiction should be a genteel escape from the encroaching horrors of contemporary life rather than a blueprint for more of the same. The weakness of this case is that it denies narrative art its taproot into the muck and mire of the subconscious; it forgets that private nightmares will fester in solitary confinement instead of finding cathartic company in the public community of stories...
...emergency crews fortified sandbag barriers and shoveled away muck in flood-stricken California, President Clinton appeared live on TV to assure victims that federal help was on the way. At least six deaths have been blamed on storms along the West Coast. By last night, Clinton had certified 24 California counties north of San Francisco and near Los Angeles as disaster areas. He will visit the scene in the politically important state early next week, on a trip originally planned to mark the first anniversary of the Northridge earthquake. While storms abated throughout the state today, forecasters predicted more rain...