Word: mud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...uniform, acted with all too much efficiency. They tailed visitors, photographed gatherings, searched rooms and bags, confiscated documents and videotapes, stopped peaceful protests, detained some journalists and on the whole created an intimidating atmosphere. To top things off, even the heavens glowered, sending forth rain that churned up mud, mud everywhere...
...formed so early in the year. So far, 12 tropical storms have materialized off the west coast of Africa, six of which have grown into full-fledged hurricanes. The good news is that the damage to date--floods in the Carolinas, toppled trees and power lines in Central Florida, mud slides on the Caribbean island of Martinique--has been comparatively mild. The bad news is that more big storms are on their way, and before the end of November, when the season officially ends, one or two may yet slam into land with savage power...
...with a gate, around their development. The author, mistrusting his skill and the reader's acuteness, relentlessly flashes irony alerts. Candido gets work constructing the wall, knowing well enough whom it is intended to keep out. Coyotes eat the nature writer's lapdogs, Osbert and Sacheverell. And when a mud slide sweeps Delaney toward mucky death, let there be no doubt whose brown, work-worn hand reaches to pull him free. This is weak, obvious stuff, worth a raised eyebrow and a shrug...
...tactile experience of planting the garden becomes all-encompassing for Leena, as she pushes herself physically. The feel of the plants as they grow taller, the mud from the garden when she waters the crops and the response of the plants to her touch are the focus of Leena's existence...
...resolved, the clear loser will be Tepperman's stricken wife, the victim of an equal-opportunity disease that shows no regard for bottom lines or other totems of corporate life. The winners, of course, are those who enjoy the intoxicating spectacle of millionaires and billionaires wallowing in the mud. The trial is expected to last a month...