Word: mud
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...that no one wants. He heads a brigade that is clearing debris from last week's earthquake that devastated this city and several others on Peru's central coast. He directs bulldozers along narrow streets, scooping up the remains of homes built years ago out of a mix of mud bricks and bamboo-like reeds. The clean-up sends clouds of dust into the air, recalling for residents the immediate aftermath of the 8.0-magnitude earthquake that struck early in the evening...
...khotla was eventually swayed, and the villagers, unable to tolerate the crew's lame attempts at constructing a circle of mud huts, even built the set. On the day of the shoot, hundreds have come to "mourn" at the funeral of the father of the central character, Precious Ramotswe, played faultlessly by R&B singer Jill Scott...
...base in eastern Afghanistan, about a mile (1.6 km) from the Pakistan border, part of a new program to embed U.S. soldiers with Afghan companies to ease the transition to full independence. It's rough work. For the first month of their deployment, the troops had no showers. Snow, mud and rain dogged every patrol, and landslides caused the collapse of a couple of barracks and a chow hall. The post's remote location meant that food supplies flown in by helicopter were sometimes delayed--and when they did come, half the vegetables had already rotted. Even the camp dogs...
...world knew back then, it was that painting was yesterday's news. Real artists did installations, or sawed houses in half or got behind the controls of a bulldozer and piled up earthworks - anything other than pick up a hairy brush and use it to drag that ancient mud called pigment across a piece of cloth...
...just finished reading "The Boys Are All Right" when, walking to the shops, I watched three little boys aged about 4 or 5 playing in a front yard. They were all covered in mud from head to foot as they excitedly built a road, carefully lined with rocks, for their toy trucks to cross the lawn and run down the slope. Although there was a perfectly good toy front-end loader in the mud pit, one boy had figured out that the dog's water dish carried much more mud and was easier to fill, so he had clearly been...