Word: mucks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard football team slogged its way through the muck and mire of Soldiers Field yesterday in a light workout that didn't help Crimson head coach Joe Restic in his search for a starting quarterback. And with the season opener just three days away, the lack of a definite starter is a problem, to say the least...
...Real Paper has also shown an ability to produce good investigative reporting, not the muck-faking that similar weekly papers often crank out. Recently it revealed that Suffolk Country Sheriff Thomas Eisenstadt, for example, spent public funds to furnish his house, spending money for velvet drapes, a Pakistani rug, even an escargot set. It was a story that the Real Paper beat The Globe to by several steps...
...generation lurking in his lair. The camera flattens the owl-like eyes and avian nose into the mask of a pudgy child surrounded by a volcanic sludge of rubbish: the walls daubed with paint, the tables and floor buried under a dune of exhausted tubes, boxes, crumpled photographs, muck. These, so to speak, are the lineaments of gratified desire. "I never believed one should have any security and never expect to keep any," says Bacon. "After all, as existence in a way is so banal, you may as well try to make a kind of grandeur of it rather than...
Traditional novelists toss pebbles into domestic pools and then take notes. The postwar fashion has been to track these projectiles directly into the muck below, but there is another, older way. As masters like Henry James and Virginia Woolf knew, the ripples on the surface can bedevil the eye and engage the mind. Before My Time brushes up this earlier technique. It transforms a brief disturbance of hearth and home into an age of anxiety...
...crust had formed, and the cooling earth lay exposed to the developing atmosphere." The next 110 pages are taken up with discourses on magma and glaciers, the planet's prehistoric upheavals. Then come the prehistoric beasts, which the author vaguely anthropomorphizes: a lovely Diplodocus wandering in the muck "toward dusk on a spring evening one hundred and thirty-six million years ago" finds herself growing "irritable...