Word: mud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thought, for example, that we might leave the house absolutely impeccable--except that we would fill Derrick's trunk with mud. The screenplay as Derrick and Craig struggle to carry the dirt-packed foot locker back up to Derrick's bedroom writes itself...
...happy chance, warthogs and meerkats also make neat zoo animals. Unlike most desert creatures, including lions, both are busy during the day. Warthogs wallow in mud (it's their sunscreen) and throw clumps of it at one another. Meerkats, highly gregarious, dig and perch cutely on their haunches. While no zoo admits to choosing its new guests because of a movie, several will have suspiciously Lion King-appropriate exhibitions open this summer, notably Busch Gardens in Tampa Bay, Fla., which has an "Edge of Africa" safari based on the Serengeti, where the movie was set; and the Oklahoma City...
Strange words for a middle-aged father of two grown children, Sally, 23, and Ben, 24. But Taylor has been painfully wrenching his way into manhood since 1971, when he sang, "Let the boy become a man" on the album Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon. "I was aware of that back then. It just takes a long time to get here," he explains. "Recovery is part of it. Death is part of it. Love that goes bad is part of it. Failing to be a parent is part of it. You have to fail over and over...
...edge of the marsh just after 11:30 Saturday night. "Lori, Lori, I can't find a pulse," one of the cops at the accident site yelled out when he saw her. Clayton, an emergency-medical-team worker, quickly made her way through the darkness and into the mud. "These guys were still hot," she recalls. She did a pulse check. Nothing. And then she looked at her hands: they were covered in blood. A few yards away was shattered glass, but the car did not appear to have hit anything. Taking a flashlight, she focused a beam...
...thought that he did do a good job of portraying that politics is not all about mud-slinging and dirt-throwing, but it really is a group of people who have ideals and want change," said Michael H. Tang of Chicago...