Word: mudding
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...awkward moment, one of the President's boots stuck in the mud and only the quick reaction of two volunteer workers prevented him from falling into the slime. The incident was a fitting metaphor for Reagan's two-day trip, which also took him to Montgomery, Ala., Nashville and Oklahoma City. The White House had been looking for ways to pull the President out of the thickening political muck in Washington and portray him as a man of compassion. The stopover in Fort Wayne provided just such an opportunity...
Nothing provokes a brouhaha in the intellectual circles of the left like a stirring mea culpa from a compatriot who is audacious enough to denounce Communism. What usually happens next is a highbrow equivalent of mud wrestling, as colleagues question the defector's motivation and fire off gratuitous insults. In the eye of the latest tempest, which blew up in response to the suppression of freedom in Poland, is Social Critic Susan Sontag (Styles of Radical Will, On Photography), whose past essays have sung the praises of revolutionary movements from Havana to Hanoi...
That was the summer of a somewhat kinky toga party and a so-called mud dance, which had to have been against the law in several states. It was the summer after the famous last-day streak, a season which had nearly brought a law suit from a shocked pair of parents. It was also the summer a middle-aged pianist cracked up altogether. Before her exile, she had wanted to hold a music salon in the barn and charge admission. She had cried a lot, and everyone was sort of relieved...
...transform the toothpick that runs up his back into a spine. The only problem is that Keith, for all his bluster, does not know what he is doing, in business or on the boat, and Alistair, when he eventually takes the helm, runs them onto the mud. Salvation comes in the person of a riverman, Vince (Graeme Eton), who puts the boat back on course. Vince knows how to do everything, it seems, and, after a day or two of amiability, displaces Keith as captain, humiliates Alistair and, with the help of a lady friend (Gillian Sevan), pulls down...
...star was supposed to look like.) In another report, the prisoner was said to have died. "Now they'll never know if he had a Cuban accent," said one reporter. Out in the countryside, ABC and NBC vans in search of the elusive Cuban bogged down in the mud, and a Salvadoran peasant collected two crisp 100 colones notes ($80) to haul the vans out with a team of oxen-while a network cameraman captured the action. When Ike Seamans of NBC approached the San Vicente garrison, the soldier on duty wouldn't even let him speak...