Word: mud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Michael Smith with a little less than a minute left in the match, turkey and stuffing was all the Crimson got all afternoon. That shot, granted because of a UConn tripping infraction in the penalty area, made the score 5-1 and wiped at least a little of the mud off the collective face of the Harvard squad...
...opening night the answer was no. Dozens of critics and musicians disputed the long reverberation time, the strident brass, the puddles of aural mud. Too much depended on one's location in the auditorium. The bass was usually too strong. (That is good; after 18 years and expensive tinkering, New York's Avery Fisher Hall-the Titanic of postwar acoustics -still has a mumbling bass.) In general the sound seems too bright and unfocused. That, however, is better than starting out with a dead hall...
...neat stone wall graces the entrance to Freeman Field Industrial Park in the otherwise rustic small town of Seymour (pop. 13,100), about 70 miles southeast of Indianapolis. But in the park, there is a dry, mud-caked ditch, and the trees along its banks are dead. Inside a wire fence, an acrid scent brings tears to visitors' eyes. Some of the tidily stacked barrels bear household names: General Electric, Dow Chemical, Shell Oil, Monsanto. Paint sludges collect in sticky red and green pools on the porous ground, and such chemicals as arsenic, benzene, toluene, trichloroethylene and naphthalene ooze...
Preparing a TV documentary on new opportunities for women, Kate ponders both the stunted lives of the old girlfriends who stayed behind and the possibility that the freedom from early pressure made her own success easier for her. As this mud dle deepens, Drabble's vision expands to include a London equally confused. Eng land is a tight little island no longer...
...bitter, dirty fight," commented Political Analyst Rudolf Wildenmann. "Unprecedented political mud-slinging," charged Christian Democratic Chairman Helmut Kohl. Munich's Süddeutsche Zeitung warned that "election polemics are producing poisonous blossoms...