Word: mud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rain and mud did not hinder the Crimson stickwomen as they swamped the University of Rhode Island Rams yesterday on a submerged Soldier's Field...
TIME'S Bangkok correspondent David DeVoss found an equally thriving market in Dara Adam Khail, a mud-splattered tribal settlement in Pakistan's North-West Frontier. Visiting in the early days of January 1980, after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, DeVoss asked the most venerable gunsmith in Dara for a "beginner's weapon." From beneath a pile of Sten guns, the man unearthed what DeVoss thought was a ballpoint pen. But the pen could accommodate a .25-cal. slug that would kill at close range...
...material, effective as it often is, can only be seen as an excuse for what is in fact an exercise in sadism. Basically what "... All the Marbles "does is invite its audience to witness pretty women in scanty costumes (and, by the end of the inevitable-and ill-motivated-mud-wrestling sequence, virtually no costumes at all) racking one another up. Their positions of combat are sexual; so are the carefully emphasized screams, moans and groans of pain, which are made to seem almost indistinguishable from those of pleasure. It is all very well calculated-at least one audience...
...under duress" by Editorial Page Editor Meg Greenfield, meaning that she got a lot of heat from Executive Editor Ben Bradlee and Publisher Donald Graham. Post reporters, still smarting from the Janet Cooke Pulitzer Prize hoax earlier this year, were distressed to see their paper leaping into another ethical mud puddle. So were other journalists...
...that Christina could not have resisted taking revenge on her mother, and it's too bad to see Joan Crawford posthumously dragged through the mud. Christina's attempt to cash in on her mother's problems shows very little class on her part. It would have been much better all around if this movie were never made...