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Among the Tuvinian people of the Soviet Union, an individual can sing two melodies simultaneously. That has wonderful possibilities. Might one cross in the Tuvinian mind two simultaneous numbers, like, say, Bing Crosby's Mississippi Mud ("It's a treat to beat your feet.. .") with Rock the Casbah by the Clash? Would the Tuvinian stay sane if that happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: They're Playing Ur-Song | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

...naked Indian hiding in the pawpaw tunnels. "The writing is lyrical but is always darkened by tragedy and disappointment. At the end of the story, Reva meditates by the lock house in which she and Clinton made love: "Upstream, a deer's hoof sucked in the soft mud, but Reva kept watching the swimming moon-the same moon she knew Clinton watched with his cincinnate whore. "She realizes the hopelessness of her desires, and sets fire to the lockhouse in an act of despair and rejection...

Author: By Robert E. Monror, | Title: A Single Flame | 2/28/1983 | See Source »

Suddenly the rain poured. The trees fell, trash came floated down the street, and papers were swimming everywhere. Dirty water and mud were inside our home. We hurried to Laredo in a small boat. I felt like I was going to die. I was worried about my family. I felt bad because i don't know if. I would still have a house left when i got back. Rouie Agwire, grade...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Speaking From the Heart | 2/28/1983 | See Source »

...distributor who is an unindicted coconspirator, testified that Wilson, who left the CIA in 1970, said he wanted "as much as I could get" of cyclotrimethylene trinitramine, a plastic explosive known as C4. Brower said he shipped 42,300 Ibs. in 856 5-gal. cans disguised as "drilling mud," a chemical lubricant used in oil-drilling rigs, from California to Houston, where it was loaded aboard a leased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Shots Feel the Heat | 2/14/1983 | See Source »

...post office. During normal times, living conditions for the several thousand refugees are grim yet not unbearable. Sustained by their dream of a Palestinian homeland the men, women and children make do without "luxuries" like running water, electricity and modern sanitation. They can ignore the wooden shacks and mud floors. And they can forget their status as a wandering people whose houses are not really homes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grim Victory for Democracy | 2/12/1983 | See Source »

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