Word: mud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...architectural consultant, a cheerful young provincial from Chillicothe, Ohio, went from door to door asking astonished Sioux mothers whether they--preferred gas stoves to electric stoves; whether they liked bunk-beds; whether the children could use a "mud room" for their boots and galoshes. The poor fellow seldom received an answer...
...rest of the weekly fact sheet listed items such as a lice outbreak in Hollis, incorrect Chem 10 grades, intramural mud wrestling and a University Health Services seminar on "Sexual Techniques...
...movie begins with a closeup of feet--bare feet, mud-covered feet, crippled feet--in short, feet in their most humble form. It then expands to show a procession of peasants trudging across a barren, almost lunar landscape of huge rocks and cracked terrain. Immediately we see that we have entered the surreal, prehistoric kingdom of Shakespeare's Lear. The next shot shows Lear's huge, imposing castle which rises suddenly and rather unnaturally out of the ground, dwarfing the peasants who in comparison look like a bunch of ants swarming on an anthill. Heightened by the effective...
...around, though, who does not seem to share a vision of Sarajevo as a perennial winter playground, the expressed motive of the Olympic organizers. And as far as the mountains go, the picture is gleaming. But the city, usually deep in snow long before now, is mired in mud. Central Yugoslavia has melted practically into spring. On the Mount Igman plateau, where the cross-country skiers will stride and slide through the forest, their trail is streaked with patches of dire brown. A small battalion of soldiers is scattered in the woods prospecting for snow by the clump, hauling...
There are those people in the world who object to against him and one cannon wholly blame them Agitation after all is unpleasant. It means that while you are going on peaceably and joyfully on your way some half-mud person insists upon saying things that you do not like to hear. They may be over but you do not like to hear them...it is not always pleasant to nice ears to hear a man ever coming with his dark facts and unpleasant conditions. Nevertheless it is the highest optimism to bring forward the dark side of any human...