Word: mudding
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...illustrated the same truth. What you need of such a weird spectacle is one good view of it, and this I had ... The uneasy moonscape stretched away on every hand, and, below me, clinging to the roots of the fortified pinnacle of rock I stood upon, were the ruinous mud huts of the old village, their terraces heaped with melons yellow and green. Fantastical that landscape is, the tufa towers riddled with painted churches, like the sandcastles of giants' children, and I was amazed by it; but amazement is pretty soon exhausted...
...takes a back seat to the commercials shown between posessions. Local radio stations, when not airing campaign ads, spin Helms-Hunt musical parodies. Ray Parker Jr.'s hit "Ghostbusters" has been dismembered so that the chorus repeatedly chimes "Who ya gonna call? Mudslingers! They ain't afraid of no mud. They're just out for some blood...
...infuriated the early-bird pundits, because no conclusions can yet be drawn. Over $22 million, much of it from out of state donors, has been spent on the race, whole forests have been felled to provide paper for reams of commentary, vitriolic epithets have been bandied, cannonades of mud have been slung, political skeletons have been exhumed and rattled-and yet as the race entered the final week, the polls showed first one man ahead, then the other. The race is headed for a photo-finish...
...counterattack by focusing first on Helms' record as a devout opponent of social security and abortion and as a lackluster Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, and second on Helms' "retrogressive" mindset. But they were clearly baffled when Helms began to close the gap in the polls-he slung mud, as expected, but he also traveled the high moral road of emotive symbolism...
...creating a political demolition derby, not a presidential debate. Those strange impulses in the American soul that have produced mud wrestling and The Gong Show seem to have claimed the national campaign...