Word: mucking
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...Wolf" is an entertaining movie. It has you gripping your seats on occasion and gagging at the gore and the muck. It doesn't creep into your mind and make you scared to walk alone under a full moon, though. So if you think you can stomach the blood and want to see Nicholson and Pfeiffer doin' their thing, buy some microwave popcorn, sit back and watch it on video, because you can afford to miss it in the theaters...
...Heart (Doubleday; 404 pages; $24.95), a book about his troubled clan. One might expect this effort to be another grotesque float in the continuing parade of household horrors. Instead Mikal, a writer for Rolling Stone, has crafted a powerful, well-researched work that rises loftily above the usual dysfunctional muck...
...sentiments of a greeting card. "Her love rains down on me easy as the breeze," guitarist David Gilmour sings on Take It Back. "I listen to her breathing it sounds like the waves on the sea." Only Keep Talking, propelled by interlocking guitars, manages to rise above the muck...
...conservatives who have been chortling in anticipation since hearing about Paula Corbin Jones' accusations in February, the question for the mainstream media is, What took you so long? To liberals who label the charges unsubstantiated and irrelevant, the question is, Why are you raking up this muck? Both sides are right in perceiving widespread journalistic aversion to the story. That reluctance involves ethical and gender issues that go far beyond partisanship...
...damage has not reached Treasury Secretary Bentsen. Scrambling to distance himself from the rising muck, he ordered his employees to have no more contact with the White House about Whitewater and asked the Office of Government Ethics to review the earlier contacts...